How Does Cricket Affect Australian Society
Cricket has enjoyed a formal, popular presence on the Australian sporting landscape for far longer than any other sport. However why are so few Indigenous Australian players represented among the historic and contemporary figures that drive the key plotlines in the nation's cricket story? These members changed how the world see cricket which was seen originally as a “white men’s sport” not so long ago .
When colonising Australia, Britain used cricket as a colonising glue. Not only did they expect colonists to play it, they also wanted the new British citizens to play it as well. However the first documented instance of Indigenous players' involvement in cricket in Australia was at Adelaide's St Peter's College in 1854, and a decade later an all-Aboriginal team was established in Victoria's western districts and was later coached by an Australian forefather Tom Wills. It was Wills who captained that team in a match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground that …show more content…
But once aboriginals Toured England, this opened a door to heavily impact Australia. Cricket impacted Australian society by uniting different ethnic groups, races and genders, this inevitably increased the popularity, hence its impact on diversity, cricket became a part of every Australians life, they ate cricket, slept cricket, dreamed cricket and played cricket. Many non- white Aboriginal players have now seeked their way up the ranks into professional cricket, now representing our country - According to figures from Cricket NSW, multicultural participation in club numbers have increased by 50 per cent from last season and increased a furthermore 130 per cent from the season before - This monument hasn’t just been tied to Australia, ever since Aboriginals played internationally, many different countries such as India, South Africa and Pakistan to name a few have since joined the code. Cricket is a
When colonising Australia, Britain used cricket as a colonising glue. Not only did they expect colonists to play it, they also wanted the new British citizens to play it as well. However the first documented instance of Indigenous players' involvement in cricket in Australia was at Adelaide's St Peter's College in 1854, and a decade later an all-Aboriginal team was established in Victoria's western districts and was later coached by an Australian forefather Tom Wills. It was Wills who captained that team in a match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground that …show more content…
But once aboriginals Toured England, this opened a door to heavily impact Australia. Cricket impacted Australian society by uniting different ethnic groups, races and genders, this inevitably increased the popularity, hence its impact on diversity, cricket became a part of every Australians life, they ate cricket, slept cricket, dreamed cricket and played cricket. Many non- white Aboriginal players have now seeked their way up the ranks into professional cricket, now representing our country - According to figures from Cricket NSW, multicultural participation in club numbers have increased by 50 per cent from last season and increased a furthermore 130 per cent from the season before - This monument hasn’t just been tied to Australia, ever since Aboriginals played internationally, many different countries such as India, South Africa and Pakistan to name a few have since joined the code. Cricket is a