Indigenous Cricket

Nitmiluk Cup

The Nitmiluk Cup is held annually during November in Katherine, a town situated on the Katherine River, after which it is named, 320 kilometres southeast of Darwin. Katherine is the fourth largest settlement in the Territory and is known as the place where "the Outback meets the Tropics". 

The third and largest of the Remote Cricket Carnivals played each Wet Season, the Nitmiluk Cup sees players come together from the town and surrounding communities as far as Darwin, Timber Creek and Borroloola for a weekend of Super 8's cricket.

The competition has two divisions, with teams playing for the Nitmiluk Cup and TJ Tilley Shield. 

Nitmiluk Cup 2023

Beginning as an outpost established with the Australian Overland Telegraph Line on the North–South transport route between Darwin and Adelaide, Katherine has grown with the development of transport and local industries including mining – particularly gold mining; a strategic military function with RAAF Base Tindal; also as a tourism gateway to the attractions of nearby Nitmiluk National Park, particularly Nitmiluk (Katherine) Gorge and it's many ancient rock paintings.

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.