Basil D’Oliveira’s 158 not in still shames England and South Africa | Matthew Engel

Fifty years ago a seemingly unignorable knock from ‘Dolly’ fell by the wayside due to apartheid politics

There have been many strange decisions by England cricket selectors over the years. Only one of them changed the world. And it happened exactly 50 years ago.

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