Australian Aboriginal cricket team in England in 1868
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Australian Aboriginal cricket team in England in 1868
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In 1868, a cricket team composed of Aboriginal Australians toured England between May and October of that year, being the first organised group of Australian sportspeople to travel overseas. It would be another ten years before an Australian cricket team classed as representative left the country. The concept of an Aboriginal cricket team can be traced to pastoral stations in the Western District of Victoria, where, in the mid-1860s, the European owners introduced Aboriginal station hands to the
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2005-06-11T16:40:28Z
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2024-09-15T04:13:16Z
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