Date of Issue : 1 May 2018
Postmark : Edenhope VIC 3318
Denomination : AU$1.00
Stamp Size : 37.5 mm x 26 mm
Paper : Tullis Russell
Printing Process : Lithography
In 1868, a team of 13 Aboriginal cricketers, known as The Aboriginal XI, travelled to England to play against local and county English teams. These ground-breaking players paved the way for the first Australian representative cricket tour of England, which occurred ten years later in 1878, as well as the first Test match against England in 1880. The team was posthumously recognised in the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2002 as the first cricket team from Australia to tour England. Celebrating 150 years since the first cricket tour, the single stamp in this issue features a photograph of the team taken at Swansea in Jul 1868, being one of the few remaining photographs of the 1868 tour, from the collection of the National Library of Australia.