cricket

Preparation of cricket oval, St Lucia, 1937. This photograph appeared in the annual report of the Queensland Bureau of Industry 1937 and shows preparations for the university cricket field. Located to the south-west of the St Lucia site, the grounds were one of the few areas to have trees which Bradfield and others so admired and considered integral to a landscape of knowledge. Queensland parliamentary papers, vol 2, 1937

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Cricket in Talwood during a drought, 1965. Slide by Jim McDougall, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Tommy Wills and the Aboriginal cricket team, 1867. Wills (middle, back) coached and captained the team in Victoria before it toured England in 1868. Collection of the National Library of Australia

Collection of the National Library of Australia

Tommy Wills, c1875. Collection of Wills Family Records, image by Liz Huf

Collection of Wills Family Records, image by Liz Huf

Tommy Wills (right) with cricketing colleagues, 1864. MCC Collection.

MCC Collection

Thomas Wentworth Wills and Cullin-la-ringo Station

Thomas Wentworth Wills narrowly escaped death on 17 October 1861 when his father and 18 others were killed at Cullin-la-ringo Station on Garden Creek, near Springsure.