Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Pages in category "Indigenous Australian cricketers" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Aboriginal Cricket Team with Tom Wills (coach and captain), Melbourne Cricket Ground, December 1866. This is a list of indigenous Australian (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) athletes and sportspeople. Sports is one of the areas of mainstream Australian society in which Indigenous Australians have been able to break through in some degree.
List of cricket matches played by the men's Australian Indigenous cricket team. This team has also been known as the Australian Aboriginal cricket team, Australian Indigenous XI and the ATSIC Chairperson's XI.
Boland is one of a handful of indigenous Australians to be selected to play for Australia at international level and, as of December 2021, is only the second male Aboriginal player to have played Test cricket for Australia, after Jason Gillespie. [5] He was a member of the Australian team that won the 2023 ICC World Test Championship final.
He was also selected in an Indigenous Australian cricket team that toured England in June and July 2009. [4] [5] In March 2011, Short was named the Lord's Taverners Indigenous Cricketer of the Year award winner. [6] Short made his first-class debut for Western Australia in the 2016–17 Sheffield Shield season on 17 November 2016. [7]
Faith Thomas AM (née Coulthard; 22 February 1933 – 15 April 2023), born Tinnipha, [1] was an Australian cricketer and hockey player. [2] She was also a nurse in regional South Australia . Thomas is known for being the first Indigenous woman to represent Australia in any sport as well as for her distinguished service to the Australian ...
After playing with the State Colts in 1930, Gilbert was selected in the Queensland Sheffield Shield team for 1930/31.Gilbert was probably only the fifth Aboriginal Australian to play first-class cricket in Australia, after Twopenny in 1870, Johnny Mullagh in 1879, Jack Marsh in 1900, and Albert Henry in 1902.
While in Melbourne, the Aboriginal cricketers were introduced to Lawn bowls. It was reported that Dick-a-Dick, along with Tarpot and Jellico, "impressed with their skill at the game." [10] Dick-a-Dick also threw a cricket ball 104 metres (341 ft) [11] in Australia, and matched that distance in England, and which was only bettered by W.G. Grace. [8]