Ron Archer

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Ron Archer Australia (AUS)
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	Right-arm fast
	Tests	First-class
Matches	19	98
Runs scored	713	3768
Batting average	24.58	31.93
100s/50s	1/2	4/21
Top score	128	148
Balls bowled	3576	15618
Wickets	48	255
Bowling average	27.45	23.36
5 wickets in innings	1	9
10 wickets in match	0	1
Best bowling	5/53	7/56
Catches/stumpings	20/0	106/0
Test debut: 6 February 1953 Last Test: 11 October 1956 Source: [1]

This article is about the cricket player. For Ron Archer (pseudonym) see Ted White

Ronald Graham Archer (October 25, 1933 - May 27, 2007) was an Australian Test cricketer who was born in Highgate Hill, Queensland. He played in 19 Tests from 1953 to 1956.^[1]

He was the brother of Ken Archer, who also played Test cricket for Australia.^[2]

A highly gifted all rounder, Archer's career was cruelly cut short by a serious knee injury in a game in Karachi when he was just 23. A permanent fixture in the team from his debut at Melbourne in 1952-53 until stricken by injury in 1956 Archer was a stylish middle order batsman and steady opening bowler. After a slow start he excelled on the West Indian tour of 1954, recording 84 in Trinidad, 98 at Bridgetown and a maiden test hundred at Kingston to finish the series with 364 runs at 60.66. Showcasing his all round talent he took 18 wickets at 25.05 in England in 1956 but fell injured in Pakistan on the way home. ^[3] He played in 1958-59 as a specialist batsmen but though he averaged over 40 for Queensland his knee would not allow him to continue in the game. ^[4]After retiring from the playing field he worked as a TV executive, became Cricket Australia's Code of Behaviour Commissioner and officiated as an ICC match referee. He was made a life member of the Queensland Cricket Association for his services to cricket. ^[5]

Cricket Australia Chairman Creagh O'Connor paid the following tribute "Ron Archer had a brief and very successful Test career which was tragically cut short by an injury of the type that modern sports medicine would today probably have overcome...But while his international playing career was too short, he still devoted an energetic and cheerful lifetime of support to the game that he loved, contributing right up until his final summer." ^[6]

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