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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 ...
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.
The team was established by the Abbot of the New Norcia missionary settlement, Rosendo Salvado who was a regular cricket watcher and believed that the formation of the team was "one more humanising and Christianising element" in his mission to Aboriginal people.
The Aboriginal team at the MCG in December 1866. Dick-a-Dick is standing at the far right While Dick-a-Dick's skill as a cricketer was less than his other sporting endeavours, he was chosen in the Aboriginal cricket team that played matches in Victoria and New South Wales and toured England.
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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.
Twopenny (also Jarrawuk or Murrumgunarrimin) (c. 1845 – 12 March 1883) is generally acknowledged as the first Aboriginal Australian to play first-class cricket. He was born in Bathurst, New South Wales. He joined the Australian Aboriginal cricket team on its tour to England in 1868.
A team of Aboriginal Australians was the first overseas side to tour England, under the auspices of Sydney publican/cricketer Charles Lawrence. They were not a first class team. 25–26 May: Edward Tylecote hits the first recorded score of 300 in any grade of cricket with 404 for Classicals against Moderns at Clifton College [5]
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