Queensland Cricket

[8] In July 1864 the Committee held a final meeting after the match had taken place to settle the accounts and consider preparations for future engagements.

[14] In January 1867 a media report observed that cricket was thriving in Queensland, with approximately six clubs in Brisbane and active clubs also existing in Ipswich and Toowoomba, and proposed that a Queensland Cricket Association be formed to settle disputes in the sport noting that other colonies already had such bodies.

The body was to have a committee consisting of a President, two vice-presidents, a secretary, and a treasurer, to be elected by delegates of member cricket clubs.

received a letter regarding an English cricket team which was to tour Australia and had offered to visit Queensland if the Association could cover costs.

In this team Edna Newfong and Mabel Crouch were chosen as players, the first Aboriginal women to represent Australia in any sport.