Alfred Angel Black (died 1859) was an Australian cricketer. He played two first-class cricket matches for Victoria in 1858. He was "Minister of War" of the insurgents in the Eureka Stockade.Carolyn Webb, "Sporting history unearths stories of Australia's forgotten cricketers", The Age, 24 December 2013."Country News: Ballarat and District", The Argus, Melbourne, 13 March 1905, p 6William Bramwell Withers, The History of Ballarat: From the First Pastoral Settlement to the Present Time, 1887, pp 79, 101, 102, 106, 110 and 126.John Molony, Eureka, Melbourne University Press, 2001, pp 129, 146, 150, 170, 217 & 220
See also List of Victoria first-class cricketers
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