biography
| name: |
D'Oliveira, Basil (Lewis)
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pronunciation:
[dolivaira]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1934– )
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| biography:
| Cricketer, born in Cape Town, SW South Africa. As a Cape Coloured he had no prospects of first-class cricket within South Africa, but moved to England in 1960 to play league cricket in Lancashire, and eventually joined Worcestershire. Selected for England in 1966, he played 44 times as an aggressive middle-order batsman and useful change bowler, and scored five Test centuries. He was chosen for the 1968–9 England tour of South Africa, and the refusal of the South African government to admit him led to the cancellation of the tour and the subsequent exclusion of South Africa from international cricket. |
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