Indigenous Cricket

Dingo Cup

The Dingo Cup is held annually during October in Timber Creek, a small town located 285km west of Katherine in the Northern Territory. 

The first of the Remote Cricket Carnivals played each Wet Season, the Dingo Cup sees players come together from the town and surrounding communities for a weekend of Super 8's cricket.

Dingo Cup 2023

The dates for the 2024 Dingo Cup will be announced soon

Timber Creek is the traditional land of the Ngaliwurra Aboriginal people, who provided early European settlers with valuable bush knowledge and acted as guides for the local police. A police station was first established in Timber Creek in 1898. Initially just a hut and a goat yard, the dwellings were upgraded to iron and steel in 1908 and this structure has been reopened as the Timber Creek Police Station Museum. 

 

Cricket Australia respectfully acknowledges the Traditional custodians of the land, the Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Easten Kulin Nation, and pays respect to their Elders past, present and emerging.

Walkabout Wickets by Kirrae Whurrong artist Fiona Clarke (b.1963), represents cricket stars past, present and future, and the meeting places where they play.

Aunty Fiona is is a descendant of James 'Mosquito' Couzens and his brother Jonny Couzens, members of the first Australian cricket team who toured England in 1868.