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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.
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.
Australian aboriginal cricketers, Hamilton/Warrnambool, Victoria, 1867. In May to October 1868, a cricket team composed of Aboriginal Australians toured England, becoming the first organised group of Australian sportspeople to travel overseas. [1] It would be another ten years before an Australian cricket team classed as representative left the ...
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.
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]
Cricket Australia operates all of the Australian national representative cricket sides, including the Men's, Women's and Youth, Australia A sides, along with various other national teams (such as Indigenous, disability or over-age teams) in conjunction with the relevant organisations.
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.
The History of the Australian cricket team began when eleven cricketers from the colonies of New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria formed an eleven to play a touring team of professional English cricketers at Melbourne in March 1877. Billed as the "Grand Combination match", the game is now known as the first Test match. Encouraged by a 45-run ...
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