Boxing Day honour: The Mullagh Medal. Credit: He could throw a cricket ball over 100 metres, hurl a spear more than 130m, and cleared 1.6m in high jump competition.

A new medal will be awarded to the best player of the Boxing Day Test from next year, remembering the largely untold story of the first Australian cricket team to tour England.

Australia were celebrating another memorable Ashes victory after condemning a shambolic England to the latest defeat in an excruciating tour. England arrived on the third morning in Melbourne with ...

Ashes 2021: Scott Boland adds to family’s rich history at MCG, wins Jonny Mullagh Medal. Scott Boland’s heroics with the ball in the Boxing Day Test wasn’t the first time a member of his ...

Mullagh took 245 wickets at an average of 10 and scored 1,698 runs during his team’s tour […] Skip to content. All Sections. 68°F. Wednesday, June 4th 2025 e-Edition. Home Page.

At a time when issues of racial inequality have been given fresh impetus by the Black Lives Matter movement, last year's decision to create the Mullagh Medal in recognition of the captain of the ...

Johnny Mullagh, who played on the 1868 Aboriginal team that was Australia's first to tour England, became the first Indigenous inductee into the country's cricket Hall of Fame on Monday.

Ashes 2021: Scott Boland adds to family’s rich history at MCG, wins Jonny Mullagh Medal. Scott Boland’s heroics with the ball in the Boxing Day Test wasn’t the first time a member of his ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Johnny Mullagh, who was the star player of the 1868 Aboriginal side that was the first sporting team from Australia to tour internationally, has become the ...

Johnny Mullagh, who played on the 1868 Aboriginal team that was Australia's first to tour England, became the first Indigenous inductee into the country's cricket Hall of Fame on Monday.