James Crow
James (Jallachmurrimin) of the Gubbi Gubbi Tribe (and Kenilworth Station) was a member of the second Aboriginal team which toured England in 1868.
As Charles Perkins wrote in his foreword to "Cricket Walkabout" by John Mulvaney and Rex Harcourt (1988) "... sadly, even now, very few Australians are aware that the first Australian cricket team to tour England was Aboriginal".
Here is an extract from the British headlines of that time:
ARRIVAL OF THE BLACK CRICKETERS. It was said that no arrival has been anticipated with so much curiosity and interest as that of the Black Cricketers from Australia.
"It has been stated that the team had sailed from Sydney in the Parramatta and that they were expected to reach our shores in May. We have now to record the fact that they have landed at Gravesend last Wednesday and on the following day exhibited their cricket prowess at Town Malling, in Kent, in the presence, among others, of Mr. W. S. Norton, the honorary secretary of the Kent Country Club, and we hear that they gave great satisfaction to a critical coterie of spectators."
"They are thirteen in number, and are captained by Charles Lawrence, late of the All-England Eleven, who has been for some time at the antipodes. We append their native names, and opposite is given their soubriquets, under which they will doubtless be known here:-
Jungunjinanuke ........... Dick-a-Dick
Arrahmunijarrimun ....... Peter
Unaarrimin .................. Mullagh
Zellanach ................... Cuzens
Ballrinjarrimin .............. Sundown
Brippokei .................... King Cole
Bonmbarngeet ............. Tiger
Brimbunyah ................. Red Cap
Bullchanach ................ Bullochy
Grougarrong ................ Mosquito
Jallachmurrimin ........... James Crow
Murrumgunarriman ....... Twopenny
Pripumuarraman ........... Charley Dumas
"They also played cricket matches at Nottingham, Sheffield, Manchester, Bradford, Halifax, Dewsbury, Portsmouth, and Hastings."
Here is an extract from the British headlines of that time:
ARRIVAL OF THE BLACK CRICKETERS. It was said that no arrival has been anticipated with so much curiosity and interest as that of the Black Cricketers from Australia.
"It has been stated that the team had sailed from Sydney in the Parramatta and that they were expected to reach our shores in May. We have now to record the fact that they have landed at Gravesend last Wednesday and on the following day exhibited their cricket prowess at Town Malling, in Kent, in the presence, among others, of Mr. W. S. Norton, the honorary secretary of the Kent Country Club, and we hear that they gave great satisfaction to a critical coterie of spectators."
"They are thirteen in number, and are captained by Charles Lawrence, late of the All-England Eleven, who has been for some time at the antipodes. We append their native names, and opposite is given their soubriquets, under which they will doubtless be known here:-
Jungunjinanuke ........... Dick-a-Dick
Arrahmunijarrimun ....... Peter
Unaarrimin .................. Mullagh
Zellanach ................... Cuzens
Ballrinjarrimin .............. Sundown
Brippokei .................... King Cole
Bonmbarngeet ............. Tiger
Brimbunyah ................. Red Cap
Bullchanach ................ Bullochy
Grougarrong ................ Mosquito
Jallachmurrimin ........... James Crow
Murrumgunarriman ....... Twopenny
Pripumuarraman ........... Charley Dumas
"They also played cricket matches at Nottingham, Sheffield, Manchester, Bradford, Halifax, Dewsbury, Portsmouth, and Hastings."
