English cricket team in Australia in 1863–64

An England cricket team toured Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

in 1863-64. This was the second tour of Australia by an English team, the first having been in 1861-62

English cricket team in Australia in 1861-62

An England cricket team toured Australia in 1861–62. This was the first-ever tour of Australia by any overseas team and the second tour abroad by an English team, following the one to North America in 1859.-Organisers:...

Squad

The team was captained by George Parr

George Parr (cricketer)

George Parr was an English cricketer, whose first-class career lasted from 1844 to 1870....

(Nottinghamshire) who was joined by William Caffyn

William Caffyn

William "Billy" Caffyn was a famous English cricketer who played for Surrey CCC and the All-England Eleven.-Surrey and All-England:...

, Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar (cricketer)

Julius Caesar was a Surrey cricketer who played 194 first-class cricket matches between 1849 and 1867.-Childhood:...

, Tom Lockyer

Tom Lockyer

Thomas "Tom" Lockyer was a famous English cricketer during the game's roundarm era. He was one of the outstanding wicket-keepers of the 19th century.Lockyer was a right-handed batsman...

, (all Surrey); Alfred Clarke

Alfred Clarke

Alfred Clarke was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1851 to 1863...

, Cris Tinley

Cris Tinley

Robert Crispin Tinley was an English cricketer in the mid-19th century and one of the best slow bowlers of his time. He played for Nottinghamshire CCC and the All-England Eleven...

, John Jackson

John Jackson (cricketer)

John "Foghorn" Jackson was a Nottinghamshire and All-England Eleven cricketer who was generally reckoned to be the outstanding fast bowler of the 1850s.Born in Bungay in Suffolk, Jackson was affectionately known as "Foghorn"...

(all Nottinghamshire); George Tarrant

George Tarrant

George Frederick Tarrant was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1860 to 1869...

, Robert Carpenter

Robert Carpenter (cricketer)

Robert Pearson Carpenter was a noted English cricketer and umpire.A right-handed batsman and occasional wicket-keeper, he played for Cambridgeshire during its brief period as a first-class county in the 1850s and 1860s, as well as for the United All-England Eleven...

, Thomas Hayward

Thomas Hayward (cricketer)

Thomas Hayward was a Cambridgeshire and All-England Eleven cricketer who was generally reckoned to be one of the outstanding batsmen of the 1850s and 1860s. In the early 1860s, he and Robert Carpenter, his Cambridgeshire colleague, were rated as the two finest batsmen in England...

(Cambridgeshire); George Anderson

George Anderson (cricketer)

George Anderson was an English cricketer, who played first-class cricket for Sheffield Cricket Club ; and then for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from its inception in 1863 until 1869....

(Yorkshire); E M Grace

E M Grace

Edward Mills Grace was a member of the famous cricketing Grace family and the elder brother of W G Grace and Fred Grace...

(amateur; West Gloucestershire CC). Grace was the sole amateur in the party, all the other players being professionals.

Tour

The team played 14 matches in Australia but only one of these is recognised as a first-class fixture

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

Squad

Tour

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