William Lloyd Murdoch was an Australian cricketer who captained the Australian national side in 16 Test matches between 1880 and 1890. This included four tours of England,one of which,in 1882,gave rise to The Ashes. In 2019 Murdoch was inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame.
Warwick Windridge Armstrong was an Australian cricketer who played 50 Test matches between 1902 and 1921. An all-rounder,he captained Australia in ten Test matches between 1920 and 1921,and was undefeated,winning eight Tests and drawing two. Armstrong was captain of the 1920–21 Australian team which defeated the touring English 5–0:one of only three teams to win an Ashes series in a whitewash. In a Test career interrupted by the First World War,he scored 2,863 runs at an average of 38.68,including six centuries,and took 87 wickets. He was inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 2000.
George Henry Stevens Trott was an Australian cricketer who played 24 Test matches as an all-rounder between 1888 and 1898. Although Trott was a versatile batsman,spin bowler and outstanding fielder,"it is as a captain that he is best remembered,an understanding judge of human nature". After a period of some instability and ill discipline in Australian cricket,he was the first in a succession of assertive Australian captains that included Joe Darling,Monty Noble and Clem Hill,who restored the prestige of the Test team. Respected by teammates and opponents alike for his cricketing judgement,Trott was quick to pick up a weakness in opponents. A right-handed batsman,he was known for his sound defence and vigorous hitting. His slow leg-spin bowling was often able to deceive batsmen through subtle variations of pace and flight,but allowed opposition batsmen to score quickly.
George Giffen was a cricketer who played for South Australia and Australia. An all-rounder who batted in the middle order and often opened the bowling with medium-paced off-spin,Giffen captained Australia during the 1894–95 Ashes series and was the first Australian to score 10,000 runs and take 500 wickets in first-class cricket. He was inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame on 26 February 2008.
Thomas Patrick Horan was an Australian cricketer who played for Victoria and Australia,and later became an esteemed cricket journalist under the pen name "Felix". The first of only two players born in Ireland to play Test cricket for Australia,Horan was the leading batsman in the colony of Victoria during the pioneering years of international cricket. He played for Australia in the game against England subsequently designated as the first Test match,before touring England with the first representative Australian team,in 1878. Four years later,he toured England for the second time and played in the famed Ashes Test match at The Oval.
Henry James Herbert"Tup" Scott was an Australian cricketer who played first-class cricket for Victoria and Test cricket for Australia. He acquired his nickname during a cricket tour of England in 1884 from his love of London sightseeing tours which cost two pence or "tuppence".
In 1868,a cricket team composed of Aboriginal Australians toured England between May and October of that year,thus becoming the first organised group of Australian sportspeople to travel overseas. It would be another ten years before an Australian cricket team classed as representative would leave the country.
Benjamin Arthur Barnett was an Australian cricketer who played in four Tests in 1938.
Percy James Beames was an Australian sportsman who played Australian rules football for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) as well as first-class cricket for Victoria in the Sheffield Shield. He later became one of Melbourne's most distinguished sports journalists,covering cricket and Australian rules football for The Age until 1976. When the Australian Football Hall of Fame was established in 1996,Beames was among the inaugural inductees,and was also named in the forward pocket when Melbourne's Team of the Century was named in June 2000.
George Stuckey was an Australian rules footballer who played with and captained the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
James Archibald "Snowy" Atkinson was an Australian rules footballer and first class cricketer.
Rex Elvyn Garwood was an Australian sportsman who played Australian rules football in the Tasmanian Football League and first-class cricket for Tasmania during the 1950s.
William Josiah Sumner Hammersley was an English-born first-class cricketer and sports journalist in Victoria,Australia,one of the four men credited with setting down the original rules of Australian rules football.
Charles Geldart"Gillie" Wilson was an Australian first-class cricketer who represented Victoria and played with Otago and Wellington in New Zealand. He also played Australian rules football for St Kilda in the early Victorian Football League (VFL).
James Bogne "J. B." Thompson was one of the creators of the original laws of Australian rules football,one of the founders and the inaugural secretary of the Melbourne Football Club,a cricketer for Victoria and the Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC),and a journalist for Melbourne newspaper,The Argus.
Alexander Robin Keath is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League. He formerly played professional cricket for Victoria in Australian domestic cricket.
Edward Rush was an Australian cricketer. He played three first-class cricket matches for Victoria between 1897 and 1898. His brother,Thomas,also played for Victoria.
Henry De Gruchy was an Australian cricketer. He played one first-class cricket match for Victoria in 1924. He was a batting all-rounder,regarded as a useful change bowler but not a wicket taker.
On 11 and 12 February 1851,teams from Van Diemen's Land and Port Phillip District played the first cricket match between two Australian colonies,recognised in later years as the inaugural first-class cricket match in Australia. It took place at the Launceston Racecourse,known now as the NTCA Ground,in Tasmania. The match was incorporated into celebrations marking the separation of the Port Phillip District from New South Wales in 1851 as the colony of Victoria.
Ruwantha Prasad Kellepotha also known as Ruwantha Kellapotha is a Sri Lankan first-class cricketer who currently resides in Australia. He has played in 21 first-class matches with 20 of them coming in Sri Lankan soil between 2011 and 2013 while a solitary first-class appearance came in Australian soil.
