Sporting & General Medals, Badges & Awards - Cricket

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A.C.A. (Auckland Cricket Association), fernleaf badge, handcrafted in silver (45x15mm), by Kohn (Kohn & Co, Wellington), pin-back, back inscribed 'Lord Hawke's/N.Z.Tour 1902'. Very fine.

The following courtesy of Wikipedia (The Free Encyclopedia):

Lord Hawke led a cricket team of ten amateurs and two professional players on a tour of Australia and New Zealand from November 1902 until March 1903. After an opening game in San Francisco, the tour began of eighteen matches - seven of them considered first-class - in New Zealand followed by three further first-class games in Australia. Hawke's team was the first to tour Australasia with New Zealand as the primary destination and, as was the norm at the time, was privately run and funded. The Australian leg of the tour was a 'profit making venture', however the games in New Zealand were scheduled at the behest of the New Zealand Cricket Board in order to raise the profile of cricket in the country. Two of them were against a New Zealand cricket team, before its international Test status. The inclusion of such games on the tour were considered 'a sign that cricket in New Zealand was starting to be taken more seriously, and a move towards official international status was possible.'

Hawke's team was a strong one, including Pelham Warner, Bernard Bosanquet and Frederick Fane, and it was victorious in all eighteen matches of the New Zealand tour, though it was defeated in two of the three matches in Australia.

With research.