The Strangers Who Came Home: The First Australian Cricket
ong>Theong> Ashes ong>cricketong> series,played out between England and Australia,is ong>theong> oldest,and arguably ong>theong> most keenly contested,rivalry in international sport. And yet ong>theong> majority of ong>theong> first representative Australian ong>cricketong> team to tour England in in fact regarded ong>theong>mselves as Englishmen.In May of that year ong>theong> SS City of Berlin docked at Liverpool,and ong>theong> Australians stepped onto English ground to begin ong>theong> inaugural first-class ong>cricketong> tour of England by a representative overseas te