Basil D’Oliveira’s 158 not in was a bodged job that changed history | Matthew Engel

Fifty years ago a seemingly unignorable knock from ‘Dolly’ fell by the wayside – but had consequences for apartheid

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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