#stephenson tour

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Charles Lawrence — From Stephenson's Tour to Australia's First Professional Coach, 1862

Albert Cricket Club, Sydney; later New South Wales

1862-04-01

When the H.H. Stephenson tour of 1861-62 ended in March 1862, the Surrey-Middlesex left-armer Charles Lawrence stayed behind in Sydney rather than sail home. Engaged by the Albert Cricket Club at Redfern at £300 a year, he became the first paid professional cricket coach in Australian history, captained New South Wales, opened a sports goods shop in George Street, and laid the structural foundations on which the colonial game grew toward Test status.

#charles-lawrence#albert-cricket-club#sydney

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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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