The late John Arlott, renowned poet, writer and cricket commentator, was directly responsible for the non-white South African player Basil D'Oliveira emigrating to England where he enjoyed a ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Although he did not speak about it often, my father regarded bringing Basil D'Oliveira to England as the single act he was most proud of in his life. It was an act that was to help ...

“Few of those within world-class cricket are political animals. That, however, is no excuse for being politically unconscious.” – John Arlott on the Basil D’Oliveira debacle, 1968. If Clifford Geertz ...

Performances in matches that overlap decades are credited to the year in which they occurred - this results in some unknown data, especially in regard to bowling figures Performances in matches that ...