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