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Basil D'Oliveira

Basil D'Oliveira
Basil D'Oliveira 1968.tiff
D'Oliveira, photographed in 1968
Personal information
Full name Basil Lewis D'Oliveira
Born (1931-10-04)4 October 1931
Cape Town, Cape Province, Union of South Africa
Died 19 November 2011(2011-11-19) (aged 80)
Worcester, Worcestershire, England
Nickname Dolly, Bas
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right arm medium
Role All-rounder, coach
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 432) 16 June 1966 v West Indies
Last Test 10 August 1972 v Australia
ODI debut (cap 3) 5 January 1971 v Australia
Last ODI 28 August 1972 v Australia
Domestic team information
Years Team
1960–1963 Middleton C.C.
1964–1980 Worcestershire
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 44 4 367 187
Runs scored 2484 30 19490 3770
Batting average 40.06 10.00 40.26 24.96
100s/50s 5/15 0/0 45/101 2/19
Top score 158 17 227 102
Balls bowled 5706 204 41079 7892
Wickets 47 3 551 190
Bowling average 39.55 46.66 27.45 23.56
5 wickets in innings 0 17 1
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 2 n/a
Best bowling 3/46 1/19 6/29 5/26
Catches/stumpings 29/– 1/– 215/– 44/–
Source: Cricinfo, 10 April 2008

Basil Lewis D'Oliveira CBE OIS (4 October 1931 – 19 November 2011) was an England international cricketer of South African Cape Coloured background, whose potential selection by England for the scheduled 1968–69 tour of apartheid-era South Africa caused the D'Oliveira affair. Nicknamed "Dolly", D'Oliveira played county cricket for Worcestershire from 1964 to 1980, and appeared for England in 44 Test matches and four One Day Internationals between 1966 and 1972.

Born into a religious Catholic family of Indian-Portuguese descent in Signal Hill, Cape Town, as a boy he would make his way down to the Newlands Cricket Ground in Cape Town, and climb the trees outside to watch the games.

D'Oliveira captained South Africa's national non-white cricket team, and also played football for the non-white national side.

With the support of John Arlott, and the members and supporters of St Augustine's Cricket Club in Cape Town, he emigrated to England in 1960, where the journalist John Kay found him a place in his Central Lancashire League team of Middleton. D'Oliveira noted his surprise at seeing white people doing menial work, and waiting on him in restaurants. He joined the first-class county team Worcestershire County Cricket Club in 1964, and became a British citizen.


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