Basil D'Oliveira: Cricket and Controversy

Basil D'Oliveira: Cricket and Controversy

There have been innumerable biographies of cricketers. Peter Oborne's outstanding biography of Basil D'Oliveira is something else. It brings together sport, politics and race. It is the story of how a black South African defied incredible odds and came to play cricket for England, of how a single man escaped from apartheid and came to fulfil his prodigious sporting potential. It is a story of the conquest of racial prejudice, both in South Africa and in the heart of the English sporting establishment.

The story comes to its climax in the so-called D'Oliveira Affair of 1968, when John Vorster, the South African Prime Minister, banned the touring MCC side because of the inclusion of a black man. This episode marked the start of the twenty-year sporting isolation of South Africa that ended only with the collapse of apartheid itself.

Country	USA
Author	Peter Oborne
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Brand: Little, Brown Book Group
EAN	9780751534887
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	0751534889
Label	Sphere
Manufacturer	Sphere
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	288
PublicationDate	2012-11-06
Publisher	Sphere
Studio	Sphere
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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