The Imparja Cup is Australia’s biggest Indigenous cricket festival, originally founded by custodians, Shane Franey and Ross Williams, as a family match between Alice Springs and Tennant Creek in 1993. The Imparja Cup has made a significant contribution to the history and story of Indigenous cricket in Australia, and was the event and foundation on which Cricket Australia created the National Indigenous Cricket Championships in 2016. 

This year, there were four Divisions that participants could take part in; the Major Centres Division, Men’s Community Division, Women’s Community Division and the Schools Division.  

NT Cricket also hosted an ‘Imparja Schools Cup Day’ with local Primary Schools, aimed at inspiring a new younger generation of Indigenous kids to fall in love with the game.