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The SS Great Britain — The Steamship that Took English Cricket to Australia
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1861-10-19
Isambard Kingdom Brunel's iron-hulled SS Great Britain, the world's first ocean-going steamship with a screw propeller, carried both the H.H. Stephenson tour of 1861-62 and the George Parr tour of 1863-64 from Liverpool to Melbourne. The 66-day voyage of 1861, on which the cricketers practised on a deck-rigged net, was the indispensable logistical breakthrough that made commercial Anglo-Australian cricket possible.
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