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Basil D'Oliveira: Cricket and Conspiracy: The Untold Story

4.29 ( 87 Ratings by Goodreads)
Basil D'Oliveira: Cricket and Conspiracy: The Untold Story

Basil D'Oliveira: Cricket and Conspiracy: The Untold Story

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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.
Prizes

Winner of WH Smith Sports Book of the Year Award 2005 and British Sports Book Awards: Biography 2005.

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Type Book
ISBN13 9780316725729
ISBN10 0316725722
Number Of Pages 288
Item Weight 521 g
Product Dimensions 160 x 34 x 234 mm
Publisher / Reseller Little, Brown
Format hardback
Edition 1st Edition 1st Printing
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'It is an inspirational story and one which never fails to move this reader' Michael Parkinson, DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Oborne tells this remarkable story with the tautness of a thriller and the focus of a political tract. If you are at all interested in either cricket or humanity, I guarantee that you will read his book at one sitting.' Peter Wilby, NEW STATESMAN 'It is a masterpiece of research and reconstruction of the most significant sporting uprising of our times' DAILY MAIL 'As this stunning book makes very clear, principled people acting together can sniff out the essential truth and make the difference. Read it and risk being inspired to do the same.' IRELAND TRIBUNE 'Compelling reading ... Oborne has put together a thorough and very readable chronicle of an inspirational man' SUNDAY TIMES 'Peter Oborne's book is a fine cliffhanger, carrying important details previously unearthed' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

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Author's Bio

Peter Oborne is the highly-regarded Political Columnist of the SPECTATOR and contributes widely to current affairs programmes on radio and TV.

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