🏏Archie Jackson: Triumph and Tragedy 

🏏Archie Jackson: Triumph and Tragedy: Born in Rutherglen, Scotland in 1909, Archibald 'Archie' Jackson emigrated to Australia with his family at the age of four. Living in Ferdinand Street, Balmain, Archie developed a love of cricket playing on the nearby Birchgrove Oval - the home ground of the Balmain District Cricket Club. Joining the Balmain club, at 15 he became one of the youngest first-graders on debut in Sydney grade cricket and remains it's record youngest centurion. He was one of the youngest players selected for the New South Wales cricket team, beating his older contemporary Don Bradman into first-class cricket. Selected in the Australian Cricket Team for the fourth Test of the 1928-29 Ashes series at the Adelaide Oval, opening the batting Jackson made 164 - which remains a record for the youngest Australian batsman on Test debut hitting a boundary of Harold Larwood's bowling to bring-up his century. Sadly, Jackson later contracted tuberculosis, a bacterial lung disease which for at that time there was no cure. During the fourth Bodyline Test of the 1932-33 series, Jackson died in a Brisbane hospital at the age of 23. Buried in the Field of Mars Cemetery in Sydney, Jackson's pallbearers were the Australian batting line-up of Bill Woodfull, Victor Richardson, Bill Ponsford, Alan Kippax, Bert Oldfield and Don Bradman.