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basil d'oliveira cause of death Basil Lewis D'Oliveira CBE OIS (4 October 1931 – 19 November 2011) [1] was an England international cricketer of South African Cape Coloured background.
d'oliveira name origin Basil Lewis D'Oliveira CBE OIS (4 October – 19 November ) [1] was an England international cricketer of South African Cape Coloured background, whose potential selection by England for the scheduled –69 tour of apartheid-era South Africa caused the D'Oliveira affair.
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    Basil Lewis D'Oliveira CBE OIS (4 October – 19 November ) [1] was an England international cricketer of South African Cape Coloured background, whose potential selection by England for the scheduled –69 tour of apartheid-era South Africa caused the D'Oliveira affair.

Dropping Dolly: The D’Oliveira affair 50 years on - Wisden

  • English test cricketer who was banned from playing in South Africa, awarded the Companion of the Order of the British Empire by the Queen of England.

    • D'Oliveira affair - Wikipedia

  • Basil D'Oliveira was born in South Africa, but because he was not white, he could not play for his country.

    • Basil D'Oliveira: Buy-a-brick plea to honour cricket legend - BBC

      At 8pm on August 27 , the England selection committee assembled at Lord’s, where it was decided that Basil D’Oliveira – a Cape Coloured South African immigrant who had qualified to play for England – was undeserving of a place in MCC’s tour party to South Africa.

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  • Basil D'Oliveira, the England player of South African Cape Coloured background around whom the controversy centred, pictured in The D'Oliveira affair was a prolonged political and sporting controversy relating to the scheduled –69 tour of South Africa by the England cricket team, who were officially representing the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).

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      In , the Queen of England conferred D’Oliveira with the Companion of the British Empire (CBE) for his contribution to English cricket.

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      D'Oliveira, Basil, Publication date Topics Cricket players -- Biography, Cricket players Publisher London: W.H. Allen Collection.
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  • Full Name: Basil Lewis D'Oliveira, Born: October 04, 1931, Signal Hill, Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa, Died: November 19, 2011, England, (aged 80y 46d).

    • Basil Lewis (Dolly) D’Oliveira

     Basil D’Oliveira (Dolly) was born on 4 October , in Signal Hill, Cape Town of Indian-Portuguese heritage. According to South Africa’s racial laws, he was classifiedas a ‘Cape Coloured’.

    At 17, he played cricket for his father’s club, St Augustine’s on an open field which was shared by twenty five other teams. He would walk about 10 miles (about 16km) on the morning of a match to help prepare the wicket, watering and rolling it so it would bake hard on the surface and had to nail the playing mat down to the pitch, placing rocks and boulders on the edge to stop animals as well as people from walking straight across.

    D’Oliveira did not receive any formal coaching; he practiced playing in the streets of Signal Hill, where his family lived. Some of his friends were arrested and detained when the police found them playing in the street. His father had a great influence in shaping his cricketing career.  

    In , he captained the touring South