Baggy green cricket cap with embroidered coat of arms on the front, worn by Greg Chappell
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- Type
- Caps
- Place
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Materials
- Plastic - non specific, Textile - non specific, Woollen cloth
- Collection
- Swan Richards collection
- Accession number
- 2006.0083.0001
Description
'Baggy green' cricket cap of dark green felt material with rigid peak. An embroidered badge at the front features an unofficial Australian coat of arms in yellow, red, white and blue. The internal lining is of black wool. It has a plastic insert at the top with "GC / '82 / Greg Chappell" written on it.
This cap was worn by Australian captain Greg Chappell during the 1982-83 cricket season, when Australia regained the Ashes.
About the collection
The Swan Richards collection consists of seven items relating to Australian cricket in the twentieth century. It includes Bill O'Reilly's NSW Sheffield Shield blazer, Rod Marsh's wicket keeping gloves and one day international cap, Greg Chappell's Australian Test cap and cricket bat and Wally Grout's wicket keeping gloves and world record 8-catch ball mounted as a trophy. Robert 'Swan' Richards, a well known cricket identity and recipient of the Australian Sports Medal in 2000, collected these objects during his career as a cricket bat maker and businessman. The items in the collection relate to the history of Australian cricket from the end of the Second World War to the 1980s. During these five decades cricket changed immensely, from a game played by amateur sportsmen to one played by professional sportsmen in a commercial atmosphere.
Read live from the Museum's Collection API (12/11/2026, 6:07:55 am). Record last updated by the Museum 2025-02-23. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.