The documentary also follows the journey of the team’s modern-day counterparts on last year’s 150th anniversary commemorative UK tour.

Titled Walkabout Wickets, it will screen on Prime 7 at 1.30pm before the Indigenous-themed Big Bash Adelaide clash between the Perth Scorchers and the Adelaide Strikers as part of the coverage of the National Indigenous Cricket Championships held annually in Alice Springs.

The original 13 Indigenous players, who learnt the game working on western Victorian sheep stations, were not just Australia’s first Indigenous cricket team, they also had the distinction of being the country’s first team of any sport to tour overseas.

Commissioned by Cricket Australia, Walkabout Wickets follows the 2018 Australian men’s and women’s indigenous teams and the connections they formed to the First XI as they retraced the steps of the 1868 six-month trail-blazing tour.

Warrnambool-based artist Fiona Clarke, indigenous community worker Ashley Couzens and former Warrnambool artist Vicki Couzens will feature in the documentary.

All three are direct descendants of two of the original team members, Jimmy “Mosquito” Couzens and his brother Johnny whose surname, given to him by white bosses, was spelled Cuzens.

Footage of the trio was shot at Harrow, home base of the original team, where they were presented with commemorative polo shirts and met members of the 2018 men’s and women’s Aboriginal XI squads before the two-week tour last June.

Each of the touring male players represented one of the 13 pioneers, displaying their name on the back of their uniform.

Appropriately, Mosquito and Johnny Cuzens were represented by up-and-coming Victorian players, brothers Scott (Johnny) and Nick Boland (Mosquito).

For Fiona Clarke, meeting the man who carried her great-great-grandfather Mosquito’s name on the historic tour was an especially poignant moment.  Her artwork, by the same name Walkabout Wickets, also featured as the logo on the player’s uniforms, a massive 12-by-12 metre banner and on the stumps during the tour.

The banner was again used at Monday’s opening ceremony of the National Indigenous Cricket Championships. The logo also figures on the balls in Saturday’s BBL match.

“I was just so proud of the young current cricketers who showed so much respect for the original players,” Ms Clarke said.

Mr Couzens, the great-great-great-grandson of Johnny Cuzens, said he felt a deep spiritual connection to his ancestors and applauded the documentary for helping to lift the profile of “a powerful national sporting story that all Australians should be proud of”.

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