agreed was the finest batsman , at the time , to ever play the game . By all accounts the tour was a success , perhaps the first needed steps , certainly a novelty .
The same year the team returned home , 1869 , the Central Board for Aboriginals decree that it would be illegal to remove an Aboriginal person from the colony of Victoria without government approval , essentially Aboriginals were being prevented from playing any form of representative cricket . It would be 120 years before any real recognition of the 1868 tour would be mentioned .
As we sat in the gardens of the
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