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How Len Pascoe turned Australia’s pioneering Indigenous cricket team into a chart-topping song – ABC News
Australia’s trailblazing Aboriginal cricket team of 1868 is now the subject of a song, thanks largely to the passion of former fast bowler Len Pascoe.
Matt Scullion learned long ago that it’s best to answer the phone when Lenny Pascoe’s name flashes up.
Australia Day last year was no exception. The singer-songwriter was at the Tamworth Country Music Festival when he took a call from the former Australian fast bowler.
“Mate, I’m here with Les Knox and I’ve got a great story to tell you,” is how Pascoe began.
Knox is a Goomilaroi elder, a former grade cricketer at North Sydney and a mainstay of the New South Wales cricket administration, having…
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