There 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. The
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.
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