Basil Lewis D'Oliveira, CBE, surnommé Dolly, est un joueur de cricket sud-africain devenu international anglais né le 4 octobre 1931 au Cap en Afrique du Sud et mort le 19 novembre 2011. Métis du Cap, les règles en vigueur à l'époque en Afrique du Sud interdisent à ce joueur polyvalentnote, comme à tous les autres joueurs de couleur, de participer aux principales compétitions nationales. Le cricket « non-blanc » est à l'époque ignoré par les instances officielles.
Il entame une carrière professionnelle à l'âge de 29 ans dans la Central Lancashire League, en Angleterre, avant de rejoindre le Worcestershire County Cricket Club en 1964. Devenu citoyen britannique, il dispute en 1966, à 34 ans, son premier test-match avec l'équipe d'Angleterre. Il compte 44 sélections à ce niveau, la dernière en 1972.
En 1968, il est au centre de l'« Affaire D'Oliveira ». Une partie de la presse consid...
Business men and women include Anita Roddick, Alan Sainsbury, Rupert Murdoch and Fred Goodwin and the world of sport is represented by George Best and Basil D'Oliveira. James Naughtie will write and present 60 profiles of those whose deeds the panel ...
It seems like only yesterday that we were watching dancers gyrating inside giant plastic bubbles or listening to Robin Jackman reminiscing about how a shot by Manvinder Bisla reminded him of Basil d'Oliveira facing up to Wes Hall at Lord's in nineteen ...
Ian Botham was agreed to be the outstanding cricketer, but Basil d'Oliveira's personal experience was voted more significant. I grieved for the absence of Stanley Matthews, a hero from the era when footballers were proper sportsmen, but I deferred to ...
... the journalist Paul Foot, the playwright Harold Pinter and the late eco-campaigner Anita Roddick ? a heavy representation of scientists, and only two sportsmen, George Best and Basil D'Oliveira (what, no Bobby Moore, I hear you ask?).
The year the MCC tour of South Africa was cancelled after the South Afri-cans refused to accept the presence in the English side of Basil D'Oliveira. Manchester United became the first English team to win the European Cup.
The widow of cricket legend Basil D'Oliveira has unveiled a plaque at the Greater Manchester club where he first played when he arrived in Britain. Naomi D'Oliveira was joined by her son and local dignitaries at Middleton Cricket Club, Rochdale, ...
As a proud Englishman you would undoubtedly have known all there was to know about the Basil D'Oliveira affair of 1968, too; when the prospective inclusion of D'Oliveira in the English touring side to South Africa caused international outrage and led ...
Fabian Cowdrey, the son of Chris Cowdrey and grandson of Colin Cowdrey, is continuing the family connection with Kent while Brett D'Oliveira, the grandson of Basil D'Oliveira is signed up with Worcestershire on a one-year contract.
Whe South Africa defend the Basil D'Oliveira Trophy in England this summer, you'd expect Morne Morkel to play a key role for Graeme Smith's side. With a beautiful open-chested action, the lanky fast bowler from Transvaal has the ability to extract ...
The point of both stories being that at that time cricket was very much the game of white English-speakers: for apartheid reasons men such as Basil d'Oliveira were excluded and Afrikaners were a rarity in the game. This is very much to the point in ...
Will Smith qui gifle un journaliste qui tente de l'embrasser sur la bouche. La scène se passe en ce moment à Cannes 2012. Une petite baffe ça ne peut pas faire de mal non ? [...]
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