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Basil D'oliveira
- Cricket and Controversy
Engelsk Paperback
Basil D'oliveira
- Cricket and Controversy
Engelsk Paperback

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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.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9780751534887
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0751534889
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
7 apr 2005
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
129mm
Højde:
202mm
Forlag:
Little, Brown Book Group
Oplagsdato:
7 apr 2005
Forfatter(e):
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