The D'Oliveira affair was a prolonged political and sporting controversy relating to the scheduled 1968–69 tour of South Africa by the England cricket...
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1968–69 tour of apartheid-era South Africa caused the D'Oliveira affair. Nicknamed "Dolly", D'Oliveira played county cricket for Worcestershire from 1964...
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Gubby Allen (section D'Oliveira affair)
role, he was deeply involved in the D'Oliveira affair, a controversy over the potential selection of Basil D'Oliveira to tour South Africa. After Allen's...
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John Arlott (section D'Oliveira affair)
described "the seagulls standing in line like vultures for Lillee". Basil D'Oliveira was a South African who was classified as a Cape Coloured by the apartheid...
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controversy over apartheid (most particularly the reaction to the Basil d'Oliveira affair). There were a number of rebel tours to South Africa in the intervening...
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both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Following the D'Oliveira affair in 1969, South Africa was suspended from all forms of cricket from...
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Cricket – The Basil D'Oliveira Conspiracy (2004). When the paperback of Oborne's book on the D'Oliveira affair, Basil D'Oliveira, Cricket and Conspiracy:...
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Earl of Home The Hirsel Peerage Act 1963 1963 Kinross and Western Perthshire by-election 1964 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours D'Oliveira affair...
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with both the first and the last Tests being drawn. Although the D'Oliveira affair had drawn international condemnation, cricket administrators in England...
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D'Oliveira affair. List of Eastern Province representative cricketers "Arthur Coy". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 17 December 2020. "The D'Oliveira Affair"...
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African tour to Australia which was cancelled in the wake of the d'Oliveira affair. Cricinfo describes him as "one of the best bowlers not to play Test...
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Australia and New Zealand. In 1970, after recent incidents such as the D'Oliveira affair, the ICC imposed an cricketing ban on South Africa in response to...
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Earl of Home The Hirsel Peerage Act 1963 1963 Kinross and Western Perthshire by-election 1964 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours D'Oliveira affair...
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status on the Indian team. As MCC president, he played a part in the D'Oliveira affair in 1968. During his playing days, Gilligan was a member of the British...
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President of the MCC when he became embroiled in what became known as the D’Oliveira affair. Bruce Murray writes that "On 12 March 1968 Vorster saw Lord Cobham...
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the cricket-playing world. Until Olympic exclusion in 1964 and the D'Oliveira affair in 1968, only white athletes had been allowed to represent South Africa...
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history of South African cricket from 1971 to 1990. Following the D'Oliveira affair in 1968, feeling against South Africa's application of apartheid to...
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protests, however, "Dolly" was eventually included in the team; see the D'Oliveira affair. Protests against certain tours brought about the cancellation of...
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Earl of Home The Hirsel Peerage Act 1963 1963 Kinross and Western Perthshire by-election 1964 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours D'Oliveira affair...
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participate actively in Pact activity since 1962. September 17 – The D'Oliveira affair: The Marylebone Cricket Club tour of South Africa is cancelled when...
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Bay João Albasini (1813–1888) Basil D'Oliveira (1931-2011), a cricketer known for initiating the D'Oliveira affair Manuel de Freitas, Member of Parliament...
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1970 as the series with South Africa was cancelled due to the Basil d'Oliveira Affair and concerns over anti-apartheid demonstrations that had led to barbed...
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Earl of Home The Hirsel Peerage Act 1963 1963 Kinross and Western Perthshire by-election 1964 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours D'Oliveira affair...
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Alec Douglas-Home (category British Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs)
of them with international implications. This was the so-called "D'Oliveira affair", in which the inclusion of a non-white player in the England team...
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1890s. However, the cricketing boycott was prompted by the "D'Oliveira affair"of Basil D'Oliveira, a "Cape Coloured" South African, for the England team in...
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during the apartheid era in South Africa, and came shortly after the D'Oliveira affair. There were protests at many of the matches, by anti-apartheid campaigners...
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match-winning century there was a press storm in what was known as the D'Oliveira affair. It appeared that he was omitted as he was unacceptable to the South...
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Earl of Home The Hirsel Peerage Act 1963 1963 Kinross and Western Perthshire by-election 1964 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours D'Oliveira affair...
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was cancelled due to the D'Oliveira affair, a controversy over whether or not the England selectors would pick Basil D'Oliveira, a mixed-race player of...
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tour in 1970, but this was cancelled in the aftermath of the Basil d'Oliveira Affair, amid concerns about anti-apartheid demonstrations. Rather than send...
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