Dolly mixture

Robert Steen

Dolly mixture

Robert Steen

University of Brighton

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"I come down on the side of honesty, a good honest piece of bungling by good honest men." Thus did Ted Dexter, sometime England captain and one-time prospective Tory MP, characterise the most important selection meeting in sporting history. More recently, in the Sunday Telegraph, the political columnist Kevin Myers delivered much the same verdict, except that he described the original omission of Basil D'Oliveira from the MCC party to tour South Africa in the winter of 1968-69 as "cretinous". In 2003 Observer Sport Monthly named it among its "Ten Worst Sporting Decisions". But were they all too generous?

Original language	English
Journal	Wisden Cricketer
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2008

Keywords

cricket
South Africa
apartheid
Basil D'Oliveira
MCC
Harold Wilson
John Vorster

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