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Basil Lewis D'Oliveira CBE OIS 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. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. October 1931 – 19. November 2011
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Basil D'Oliveira Quotes

“If you told me I was nearer to 40 than 35 when I first played for England in 1966, I would not sue for slander.”

Basil D'Oliveira

Of the controversy about his true age.
Daily Telegraph Obituary http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/sport-obituaries/8901064/Basil-DOliveira.html

“Our cricket was completely uninhibited by tactical thoughts or any other subtleties. We were never coached, all our practice came from playing in the streets of Signal Hill, where we lived, and some of us would get hauled off to jail by the police if we were caught. Playing in the street was an offence for us.”

Basil D'Oliveira

Autobiography "My Early Life" http://basildoliveira.com/about/biographies/basil-doliveira/

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