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Importance of Cricket

Nearly every town had a cricket team.

By 1878 international matches were big news

See results of matches

(The Age1/11/78) (OMA13/2/1879)

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The KellyGang's involvment

The KellyGang do not seem to have played cricket but it was a great social network and way of getting the news around.

Many of the towns had cricket teams and the newspapers published the results of most matches