It is a sport that is worshipped by both Indians and Australians, and in the outback town of Alice Springs, cricket is helping to unite hundreds of new Indian migrants.

Sunish Kochuparambil Sasi has lived in Alice Springs for more than seven years.

The mental health support worker came from the south Indian state of Kerala with his wife, who works as a nurse at the Alice Springs hospital.

The hospital is the biggest employer in town and many members of the local Indian community work in the medical profession.

"From my state we have more than 400 people that live here, and if you go to the hospital you can see 80 per cent of people who work there come from India, so it's a huge community here." Mr Kochuparambil Sasi said.

Mr Kochuparambil Sasi said he owned a home in Alice Springs, and he and his family had happily settled in the Red Centre.

"People are awesome, there's no traffic, everyone is very friendly and now we can play cricket as well, so I'm going to be staying here," he said.

Mr Kochuparambil Sasi captains the local cricket team and said the Indian community's love and passion for the game was evident, as they practised almost every night.

"You know Indians love cricket, it's in their blood, so I love cricket, not only me, all of our team loves cricket," he said.

"They like to play cricket every time. We are practising every day. I haven't seen anybody practising every day cricket in Alice Springs, but we are doing."

The Indians have formed their own official cricket club. ( ABC: Shuba Krishnan )

Migrant boom hits Alice Springs

With around 3,000 Indians living in a town of less than 30,000, the new migrants have not only changed the multicultural vibe in town, they have also had a huge impact on the cricket scene.

President of the Alice Springs Indian Community John Paul Sirus said over the past five years there had been a big migrant boom from India.

"The biggest community is from Kerala — so the Malayalee community — they're about 900 people, including children and all," he said.

"And then the second biggest is the Sikh community with nearly 400 people, and then we got the Hindu society community as well."

Mr Sirus said cricket had brought the Indian community together.

"Because we got people from different states — we have people from Punjab, people from Kerala, people from Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, everyone is here. So this actually brought us together as one unit and showed that if we can play together, we can live together as a community as well," he said.

The Indians have formed their own official cricket club: the Alice Springs Indian community cricket club.

The club has more than 60 players registered and this season they will have three teams competing in the local 20/20 competition.

"We thought if we have a club of our own it would be much easier to bring the children up and start training them and give them all the facilities," Mr Sirus said.

Bruce Walker, President of the NT Cricket Association, has welcomed the new Indian players to the local competition, and said Indian cricketers brought a different experience to the game.

"The sort of energy that the Indian cricketers bring and the numbers that they've got now and a lot of young people ... it's a really exciting stage in the growth of cricket in Alice Springs," he said.