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Full name Basil Lewis D'Oliveira
Born October 4, 1931, Signal Hill, Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa
Current age 76 years 340 days
Major teams England,Worcestershire
Nickname Dolly, Bas
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Other Coach
Relations Brother - I D'Oliveira,Son - DB D'Oliveira
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
44
70
8
2484
158
40.06
5
15
14
29
0
ODIs
4
4
1
30
17
10.00
43
69.76
0
0
3
0
1
0
First-class
367
575
91
19490
227
40.26
45
101
215
0
List A
187
171
20
3770
102
24.96
2
19
44
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
44
66
5706
1859
47
3/46
5/62
39.55
1.95
121.4
0
0
0
ODIs
4
4
204
140
3
1/19
1/19
46.66
4.11
68.0
0
0
0
First-class
367
41079
15126
551
6/29
27.45
2.20
74.5
17
2
List A
187
7892
4478
190
5/26
5/26
23.56
3.40
41.5
6
1
0
Career statistics
Test debut
England v West Indies at Lord's, Jun 16-21, 1966 scorecard
Last Test
England v Australia at The Oval, Aug 10-16, 1972 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
Australia v England at Melbourne, Jan 5, 1971 scorecard
Last ODI
England v Australia at Birmingham, Aug 28, 1972 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1964 - 1980
List A span
1965 - 1979
Profile
One of broadcaster-writer John Arlott's most worthy deeds was saving Basil D'Oliveira from half-life as a Cape Colored in South Africa by persuading Middleton, the Central Lancashire League club, to take him on as their professional in 1960. This led to Worcestershire (in 1964) and England (in 1966) acquiring a readymade allrounder of formidable physical and mental strength, which was never better illustrated than when England were in trouble. Arlott's initiative was the making of D'Oliveira, and a source of joy to all who loathed apartheid. When you watched "Dolly" flaying the opposition's bowlers with meaty back-foot clumps, or frustrating their batsmen with outward-drifting medium-pace of cloying accuracy (his economy rate in Tests was 1.95 runs per over) there was one sharp regret ... if only he'd been spotted at 19 rather than 29. Then D'Oliveira would have put the runs and wickets in the book that would have shown future generations what he unmistakably was - one of cricket's greats. John Thicknesse
Notes
Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1967
Walter Lawrence Trophy 1967
Awarded the OBE in June 1969
Awarded the CBE on 11th June 2005
