Richard Edwards looks back to a time when a selection meeting sparked one of world sport’s greatest controversies

Family guy: Basil D’Oliveira finds some welcome time to relax with his children before becoming the epi-centre of a political storm
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The England selectors have had some serious decisions to make as the tour to Sri Lanka looms but picking the first Test squad of the post-Alastair Cook era is nothing compared to the pressure that the MCC found itself under 50 years ago this week.
It was September 16, 1968, when Tom Cartwright – the then Wa...