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The Victorian Gold Rush and the Cricket Explosion — 1851
Melbourne Cricket Club and Victorian goldfields clubs
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The discovery of gold in Victoria in July 1851 triggered a migration of tens of thousands to the colony, many of them English-born immigrants who brought cricket with them. Within two years cricket clubs had sprung up across the goldfields at Ballarat, Bendigo and Castlemaine, creating the broadest base for the game yet seen in the colonies and accelerating the development of Australian cricket by a generation.
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