Australia's first international cricket team found fame in the UK. At home, they were betrayed
By Ben Westcott, CNNUpdated 1032 GMT (1832 HKT) April 5, 2021Harrow, Australia (CNN)Growing up in the small community of Harrow in southern Australia, 86-year-old Lachie Turner spent his childhood hearing legends of the great Aboriginal cricketer Johnny Mullagh.«The story used to be that he could win a match, batting with just the handle of a pickaxe,» said Turner, with a smile. Mullagh was a hero in Harrow, and the surrounding livestock communities, where homesteads dot the landscape along miles of single-lane dirt roads.At a time when being Indigenous meant you could be thrown off your land, forced into Christian missions or even shot, Mullagh — of the Jardwadjali people from
