John Maxwell Aiken (born 3 July 1970) is a New Zealand former cricketer who played for
Auckland and
Wellington. Born in
Sydney
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,
Australia
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, he was a left-handed batsman who played 46
first class matches and 39 one-day matches in a career spanning 11 seasons from 1989/90 to 2000/01.
[John Aiken]
CricketArchive. Retrieved 19 January 2020. He scored 2,170 first-class runs at an
average of 28.93. During his career, he played for New Zealand XIs against the West Indies, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Sri Lanka.
John Aiken
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. Retrieved 13 July 2007
At the same time as his cricket career, Aiken trained as a relationship specialist and has run a private practice in New Zealand and Australia. He has also undertaken a range of media work, becoming the dating and relationship expert for the 9Honey
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History
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television channel, hosting the ABC documentaries ''Making Couples Happy'' and ''Making Families Happy'', and most recently becoming one of the experts on the popular Channel 9 reality series ''Married at First Sight Australia
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''.
References
1970 births
Living people
New Zealand cricketers
Auckland cricketers
Wellington cricketers
Australian psychologists
Australian television personalities
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