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D'Oliviera
/ ˌɒɪˈɪəə /
noun
Basil ( Lewis ). 1931–2011, South African-born cricketer who played for England. The South African government's refusal to admit him to the country as part of the England touring party in 1968 led to South Africa being banned from international cricket
Example Sentences
Defending Yates, Liz D'Oliviera said her client felt guilty she had not been allowed to see her father when she was growing up and craved a relationship with him.
It was a Winchester Oxonian, Douglas Jardine, who planned the most deliberately intimidatory cricket contest of all time in the Bodyline series of 1933, and an Etonian Conservative 14th earl, Alec Douglas-Home, who presided over English cricket's cringe towards apartheid South Africa in the D'Oliviera affair in 1966.
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