1. In 1929, aged 19, Archie Jackson made his Test debut against England, scoring 164 runs in the first innings to become the youngest player to score a Test century.
43 Facts About Archie Jackson
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Subsequently, admitted to a sanatorium in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, Archie Jackson was diagnosed with tuberculosis.
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Archie Jackson, the first son and third child of Alexander and Margaret Archie Jackson, was born in 1909 at Rutherglen, a small town near Glasgow in Scotland.
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Archie Jackson's father had spent part of his childhood in Australia and returned with his family to settle in Balmain, a suburb of Sydney, in 1913.
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Archie Jackson attended Birchgrove Public and Rozelle Junior Technical schools and represented New South Wales Schoolboys at football and cricket.
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At the age of 15 years and one month, he made his first grade debut for Balmain; cricket historian David Frith believes that Archie Jackson is the youngest cricketer to play at this level.
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Archie Jackson posted a century in the return match against the Queenslanders at the SCG.
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On NSW's tour of the southern states, Archie Jackson made a century in a non first-class fixture against Northern Tasmania and then hit 104 not out against South Australia.
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Archie Jackson scored 104 against the visiting side and shared a century partnership with Kippax, scored in just over 30 minutes.
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Archie Jackson's replacement was another rising teenage batsman, Donald Bradman, who made his first-class debut in the match.
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On his return to the team, Archie Jackson was promoted to open the batting and scored a century in both innings in the return match against South Australia.
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Australia were unbeaten on the tour and Archie Jackson scored 198 runs in four matches at an average of 49.50.
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Early the next day, Ryder was dismissed and Archie Jackson was joined by Bradman.
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Archie Jackson made no reply, but responded by hitting the first ball from Larwood to the point boundary for four runs, the ball rebounding back on to the field in front of a cheering crowd in the Members' Stand.
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Archie Jackson was eventually dismissed for 164, making him the youngest Australian batsman to score a Test century, a record beaten by Neil Harvey in 1948.
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Archie Jackson was seen as an automatic selection for the 1930 Ashes tour of England.
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Archie Jackson confirmed his selection with 182 in a Test trial, an innings regarded by many as the best he had ever played.
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Archie Jackson was included in the Australian squad to tour England in 1930.
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Archie Jackson was left out of the team for the First Test at Trent Bridge, the only defeat suffered by the Australians all tour.
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Ponsford and Fairfax both fell ill and as a result Archie Jackson was included in the team for the Third Test at Leeds.
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Archie Jackson scored one run in his only innings while Bradman made a then-record Test score of 334.
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Archie Jackson was omitted for the Fourth Test, but a century against Somerset helped him to force his way back into the side for the Fifth and deciding Test at The Oval.
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Archie Jackson took repeated blows on the body while scoring a valuable 73 runs.
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Archie Jackson shared a stand of 243 with Bradman, who scored 232, and Australia won the Test by an innings and 39 runs to regain The Ashes.
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In March 1931, Archie Jackson felt his health had recovered sufficiently to join an exhibition tour of Far North Queensland, led by Alan Kippax.
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Archie Jackson found the tour exhausting, with arduous travel and damp weather, but played well enough to top the aggregate with over 1,100 runs at an average of 93.00.
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Archie Jackson was selected for the NSW team to play Queensland in Brisbane.
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Archie Jackson believed he was suffering from influenza and he was discharged after five days, when he returned to Sydney.
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In Brisbane, Archie Jackson offered his services to grade club Northern Suburbs, against the advice of his doctors.
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Archie Jackson took work as a sales assistant at a sports depot and wrote a column for the Brisbane Mail.
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Archie Jackson wrote extensively on the Bodyline tactics employed by the English team during the summer.
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In early February 1933, Archie Jackson collapsed after playing cricket and was admitted to hospital.
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Archie Jackson's parents made their way to Brisbane to see him and many members of the English and Australian teams visited him in hospital during his last days.
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On 16 February 1933, Archie Jackson became the youngest Test cricketer to die until Manjural Rana in 2007.
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Archie Jackson's body was transported back to Sydney by train, which carried the Australia and England teams for the next Test.
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Archie Jackson was buried at the Field of Mars cemetery and a public subscription was raised to install a headstone on his gravesite.
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Archie Jackson was seen as a stylish and elegant batsman, with a genius for timing and placement.
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Archie Jackson's footwork was light and his supple wrists allowed him to steer the ball square and late.
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Archie Jackson held the bat high on the handle and his cover drive was executed with balletic grace.
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Archie Jackson was seen as possessing the comely movement and keenness of eye of the great batsman of cricket's Golden Age, Victor Trumper.
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Archie Jackson professed a love of applying the maximum velocity to the ball with a minimum of effort.
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Archie Jackson's one identifiable fault was an occasional failing outside off-stump, being prone to unnecessarily dab at away-swingers and being caught in the slips cordon.
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In contrast to Archie Jackson, Bradman made not even a pretence of being a stylist.