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Ken Austin (cricketer)

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Ken Austin
Personal information
Full name
Quentin Ahern Austin
Born(1908-12-18)18 December 1908
Queenstown, Cape Colony
Died16 July 2004(2004-07-16) (aged 95)
Harare, Zimbabwe
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm leg-spin
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1927-28 to 1946-47Rhodesia
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 5
Runs scored 65
Batting average 8.12
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 25
Balls bowled 314
Wickets 4
Bowling average 49.25
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 4/51
Catches/stumpings 3/–
Source: Cricinfo, 12 December 2021

Quentin Ahern "Ken" Austin ISO (18 December 1908 – 16 July 2004) was a cricketer who played five matches of first-class cricket for Rhodesia: one in April 1928, and four between March 1946 and March 1947.

Austin was educated at St Aidan's College in Grahamstown, Cape Province, and went to work in a bank. Dissatisfied with his job, he successfully applied for a position in the civil service in Salisbury, Rhodesia, in 1927 aged 18.[1] He made his first-class debut a few months later, but was only moderately successful, making the top score of 25 in Rhodesia’s first innings of 135.[2] Eighteen years later he resumed his first-class career, but he was even less successful, scoring only 40 runs and taking four wickets in four matches.[3]

Austin was appointed Companion of the Imperial Service Order in 1963 for his service as Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Local Government in Rhodesia.[4] At the time of his death in Harare in 2004 at the age of 95, he was the oldest surviving Rhodesian cricketer.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Ken Austin". Cricinfo. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  2. ^ "Rhodesia v Transvaal 1927-28". Cricinfo. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  3. ^ "Ken Austin". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  4. ^ "Imperial Service Order" (PDF). London Gazette: 4818. 8 June 1963.
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