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Politics and Cricket: The D'Oliveira Affair of 1968

Pages 667-684 | Published online: 04 Aug 2010

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  • When I spoke to Mr D'Oliveira in Cape Town on 4 January 2000 he declined to identify the cricket official concerned.
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  • Tony Lewis, the official historian of the MCC, commented, 'Their every decision reeked of political expediency because the cricket argument for excluding D'Oliveira and then including him was tenuous'. Lewis, Double Century, p. 314.
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  • SteenCRICKET, p. 38; interview with Lord Sheppard, West Kirby, 5 November 1999.

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