Baker is from
Bloemfontein, in
South Africa and has won three medals at the
World Outdoor Championships and three medals at the
Commonwealth Games. He broke a South African record by appearing at six Commonwealth Games. In 1996, he won the
Hong Kong International Bowls Classic pairs title with
Neil Burkett. In 1998 he won a
bronze medal in the singles at the
1998 Kuala Lumpur Commonwealth Games and two years later he teamed up with
Shaun Addinall to claim a Pairs
silver medal in the
2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Johannesburg. Another bronze arrived in 2002 with Addinall in the Pairs during the
2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games before he and Addinall finally won a Gold Medal in the Pairs at the
2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games. In 2007 he won the fours gold medal at the
Atlantic Bowls Championships. In 2009 he won the singles gold medal at the Atlantic Championships and two years later won the pairs gold medal at the 2011 Atlantic Championships. His most recent success came in the
2012 World Outdoor Bowls Championship when he picked up a fifth medal of note by claiming bronze in the Singles in Adelaide. He was selected as part of the
South Africa team for the
2018 Commonwealth Games on the
Gold Coast in
Queensland (his sixth Games). At national level he has finished runner-up three times at the
South African National Bowls Championships bowling for the Belgravia Bowls Club. He finally won a national title, when winning the pairs with
Bradley Robinson in May 2023. ==Business career==