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06/09/2014

The D'Oliveira Affair

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How the batsman sparked a row leading to the sporting isolation of apartheid South Africa

How the batsman sparked a row which led to the sporting isolation of apartheid South Africa.

In the summer of 1968, the South-African-born batsman put in a match-winning performance for England in a test match at the Oval. The ensuing row over whether Basil D'Oliveira should be picked for a tour of his country of birth led to the 25-year sporting isolation of apartheid South Africa. Sporting Witness speaks to D'Oliveira's England colleague, Norman Gifford, and his biographer, Peter Oborne.

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