{"product_id":"basil-doliveira","title":"Basil Doliveira","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere have been innumerable biographies of cricketers. Peter Oborne''s outstanding biography of Basil D''Oliveira is something else. It brings together sport, politics and race.  It is the story of how a black South African defied incredible odds and came to play cricket for England, of how a single man escaped from apartheid and came to fulfil his prodigious sporting potential.  It is a story of the conquest of racial prejudice, both in South Africa and in the heart of the English sporting establishment.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story comes to its climax in the so-called D''Oliveira Affair of 1968, when John Vorster, the South African Prime Minister, banned the touring MCC side because of the inclusion of a black man. This episode marked the start of the twenty-year sporting isolation of South Africa that ended only with the collapse of apartheid itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57389434863998,"sku":"NW9780751534887","price":14.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780751534887.jpg?v=1778635332","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/basil-doliveira","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}