Basil D'Oliveira Cricket and Conspiracy: The Untold Story

Peter Oborne's outstanding biography of Basil D'Oliveira 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.

• Author
• Peter Oborne

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 274

• Publisher
• Time Warner Books

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-7515-3488-7

• EAN
• 9780751534887

• Characters
• Basil D'Oliveira

• Genres
• sports, biography

• Release date
• 2012