Thomas Wills (1835-1880) deserves to be celebrated as a pioneer in reconciliation because he supported indigenous participation in cricket, including the Aboriginal cricket tour to England in 1868. That was ten years before Jack Conway took a professional team to England to begin the procession that continues to the present day.
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