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Australian Aboriginal cricket team in England in 1868
The Australian Aboriginal cricket team in England in 1868 was a side composed of Australian Aborigines which toured England between May and October of that year, thus becoming the first organised group of Australian cricketers to travel overseas. (The first tour by an Australian team classed as representative would not be made until 1878.)
International sporting contact was rare in this era. Previously, only three cricket teams had travelled abroad, all English: to the United States and Canada in 1859, and to Australia in 1861–62 and 1863–64.
==Background==
From the early 1860s onwards, cricket matches between Aborigines and European settlers had been played on the cattle stations of the Wimmera district in western Victoria, where many Aborigines worked as stockmen. The athletic skills of the Aborigines were so evident that a series of matches was eventually undertaken with the intention of forming the strongest-possible Aboriginal eleven.
The resulting team was coached by pastoralist William Reginald Hayman and later prominent cricketer and Australian rules football pioneer Tom Wills, who spoke to the team in an Aboriginal language he learnt as a child growing up with the Djab Wurrung people. Wills captained the team in a match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground which began on Boxing Day 1866 and attracted 8,000 spectators. An entrepreneur, Captain Gurnett, persuaded the team to play in Sydney, with a planned expedition to Brisbane followed by a tour of England. However, after their arrival in Sydney, Gurnett embezzled some of the funds raised to finance the enterprise, leaving the team stranded.
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