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Not Cricket - The Basil D'Oliveira Conspiracy

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The story of the Basil D'Oliveira scandal of 1968. D'Oliveira, a black cricketer from South Africa who had made his home in the UK, found himself at the centre of a row that rocked the English political and sporting establishment and which led indirectly to the sporting isolation of South Africa, which became crucial in bringing about the fall of apartheid.