Lords loses out
R.W. Johnson: Basil D’Oliveira and racism in sport, 16 December 2004
Basil D’Oliveira: Cricket and Conspiracy: The Untold Story
by Peter Oborne.
Little, Brown, 274 pp., £16.99, June 2004,0 316 72572 2 Show More
by Peter Oborne.
Little, Brown, 274 pp., £16.99, June 2004,
Reflections on a Life in Sport
by Sam Ramsamy and Edward Griffiths.
Greenhouse, 168 pp., £7.99, July 2004,0 620 32251 9 Show More
by Sam Ramsamy and Edward Griffiths.
Greenhouse, 168 pp., £7.99, July 2004,
“... Growing up in Durban in the 1950s, I could see how keen Coloured and Indian cricketers were, how much everything was tilted against them and, at the same time, how good white South African cricket was. Take the schoolboy generation I saw rising around me. Playing against Hilton College, I came up against Hylton Ackerman and Mike Procter – the latter opening both the batting and bowling at the age of 13 – while at Durban High School the opening pair of Lee Irvine and Barry Richards had century or double-century partnerships every week; it was impossible to bowl to them ... ”