Aiken was born on 3 July 1970 in
Sydney and moved to New Zealand in 1982 when he was 12 years old. He played as 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. 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. At the same time as his cricket career, Aiken trained as a relationship specialist and ran private practices in New Zealand and Australia, though he gave up his practice to focus on his media career. ==Media career==