D'Oliveira, Basil, 1931-2011

LC control no.	n 81061408
Personal name heading	D'Oliveira, Basil, 1931-2011 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Oliveira, Basil d', 1931-2011
Found in	His D'Oliveira, 1968. LC database, Nov. 21, 2011 (hdg.: D'Oliveira, Basil, 1934- ) Independent WWW site, Nov. 21, 2011 (Basil D'Oliveira; b. Basil Lewis D'Oliveira, Oct. 4, 1931, Cape Town, South Africa; d. Nov. 19, 2011; cricketer who became a symbol of sport's struggle against apartheid) Telegraph WWW site, Nov. 21, 2011 (Basil D'Oliveira; Basil Lewis D'Oliveira; b. Oct. 4, 1931, acc. to Wisden; in 1964, when he joined Worcestershire, he claimed to have born in 1934; in fact he may have been three years older, not three years younger, than Wisden's official date; after he established himself in county cricket he put the date back to 1931; in his autobiography he hinted that he was older than that, having masked his true age to prevent being overlooked by the England selectors; d. Nov. 19, 2011)