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Cricket in Western Australia — The Swan River Colony and Early Perth Matches, 1850s
Perth garrison and civilian clubs
1856-01-01
Cricket arrived in Western Australia with the Swan River Colony's foundation in 1829 and by the 1850s was being played regularly by garrison and civilian clubs in Perth. The arrival of convict labour from 1850 brought additional English-born men to the colony, some of them cricketers, and by the late 1850s organised inter-club cricket was taking place on the Perth Esplanade. Western Australia would not play first-class cricket until 1892, but the club tradition of the 1850s was its foundation.
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