BASIL D'OLIVEIRA by Peter Oborne ( 9780751534887 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

BASIL D'OLIVEIRA
CRICKET AND CONTROVERSY

By:

Peter Oborne

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0751534889

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9780751534887

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Publisher:

LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP

Pub. date:

7 April, 2005

Pages:

288

Description:

* WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2004* Controversial and revelatory biography of the South African-born cricketer who played for England and was banned from touring his native country

Synopsis:

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.

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Section: 8, b/w

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Imprint:

Sphere

Prizes:

Winner of British Sports Book Awards 2005 (UK) Winner of William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2004 (UK) Winner of Yorkshire Post Award 2005 (UK)

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Returnable

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