Basil D'Oliveira
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| Surname | Basil Lewis D'Oliveira | |||
| Born | October 4, 1931 Cape Town , South Africa |
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| Died | 19th November 2011 at the age of 80 Worcester , Worcestershire , England |
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| Nickname | Dolly, Bas | |||
| Batting style | Right-handed | |||
| Bowling style | Right arm medium | |||
| Player role | All-rounder | |||
| International games | ||||
| National team | England | |||
| Test debut (cap 432) | June 16, 1966 v West Indies | |||
| Last test | 10 August 1972 v Australia | |||
| ODI debut (cap 3) | 5th January 1971 v Australia | |||
| Last ODI | 28 August 1972 v Australia | |||
| National teams | ||||
| Years | team | |||
| 1960-1963 | Middleton CC | |||
| 1964-1980 | Worcestershire | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Game form | test | ODI | FC | LA |
| Games | 44 | 4th | 367 | 187 |
| Runs (total) | 2,484 | 30th | 19,490 | 3,770 |
| Batting average | 40.06 | 10.00 | 40.26 | 24.96 |
| 100s / 50s | 5/15 | 0/0 | 45/101 | 2/19 |
| Highscore | 158 | 17th | 227 | 102 |
| Balls | 5,706 | 204 | 41,079 | 7,892 |
| Wickets | 47 | 3 | 551 | 190 |
| Bowling Average | 39.55 | 46.66 | 27.45 | 23.56 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | - | 17th | 1 |
| 10 wickets in play | 0 | n / A | 2 | n / A |
| Best bowling performance | 3/46 | 1/19 | 6/29 | 5/26 |
| Catches / stumpings | 29 / - | 1/- | 215 / - | 44 / - |
| Source: Cricinfo , April 15, 2015 | ||||
Basil Lewis D'Oliveira , CBE (born October 4, 1931 in Cape Town , † November 19, 2011 in Worcester ) was an English cricketer .
Life
Since he was considered a "colored" player during the apartheid period in South Africa , he was automatically excluded from participating in first-class cricket , the highest form of game. However, he was captain of the non-white national team and also played for the non-white national football team of South Africa.
With the support of the well-known British cricket journalist John Arlott, he emigrated to Great Britain in 1960. First he came as a player with Middleton, a team of the Central Lancashire League , one of the better known English amateur leagues. He obtained British citizenship in 1964 and was signed by the Worcestershire County Cricket Club , which won the County Championship for the first time that year . As one of the best all-rounders in the league, he was appointed to the selection of the English national team in 1966 and in the following year he was named one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year .
Although he was not originally intended for the English team for the 1968 season, he was set up again and with a Century of 158 runs (points) in the last Ashes Test Match against Australia seemed his line-up for the Test Tour planned for the winter season 1968/69 to have secured to South Africa.
Surprisingly, however, he was not included on the pretext of playing bowling , i. H. His skills as a thrower are not good enough for the playing conditions in his home country. The South African Association put pressure on the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), which at the time was ultimately still responsible for the national team, to prevent D'Oliveira from being used at all costs. It was feared that this would inevitably lead to the cancellation of the tour and thus ultimately to the exclusion of South Africa from test cricket.
His exclusion from the English team was then understood in exactly the same way in public. When Warwickshire player Tom Cartwright had to retire due to injury a few weeks later, those responsible had no choice but to field D'Oliveira. Then at the latest, the South African Prime Minister Vorster intervened publicly in the matter and declared that D'Oliveira would not be allowed to play in South Africa. The MCC then canceled the tour. Although Australia still held a test series in South Africa next winter, the South African tours planned for 1970 in England and 1971/72 in Australia were canceled after strong protests. Sports relationships were only resumed after the end of apartheid.
In later years, D'Oliveira stated that he had been offered money at the time not to take part in the tour. Most recently, D'Oliveira was in bad health. He suffered from Parkinson's disease and needed 24/7 care.
In 2003 D'Oliveira was awarded the South African Order of Ikhamanga in silver. A trophy bearing his name, the "Basil D'Oliveira Trophy", has been advertised for test series between England and South Africa since 2004. Also in 2004, a grandstand in Worcestershire's New Road Ground was named after him. In 2005 he was awarded the British Order of the British Empire (CBE) and in the same year the award- winning biography Basil D'Oliveira: Cricket and Conspiracy by Peter Oborne was published.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Basil Lewis (Dolly) D'Oliveira (English) . In: South African History Online . Retrieved April 18, 2015.
- ↑ Basil D'Oliveira dies aged 80 (English) . In: Cricinfo , November 19, 2011. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
- ^ Basil D'Oliveira (English) . In: Cricinfo . Retrieved April 18, 2015.
- ^ Peter Oborne: Basil D'Oliveira: Cricket and Conspiracy: The Untold Story . Time Warner Books, 2005, ISBN 0-7515-3488-9
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | D'Oliveira, Basil |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | D'Oliveira, Basil Lewis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English cricketer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 4, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cape Town |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 19, 2011 |
| Place of death | Worcester |