Brian Bassano

Brian Stanley Bassano (born in East London, South Africa, on 21 March 1936, died in Launceston, Tasmania, on 10 July 2001) was a South African journalist and cricket historian.

Life and career

After some years in England, Brian Bassano returned to South Africa in the early 1970s and became a journalist and cricket commentator on radio. With Donald Woods, he formed one of the first multiracial club teams in South Africa, the Rainbow Cricket Club in East London.[1]

He became a prolific historian of South Africa's international cricket up to 1970, and made a 30-part television history of South Africa's Test history from 1888 to 1970.[2] He moved to Australia in the 1990s. Several of his histories were published posthumously.

His son Chris played first-class cricket for Derbyshire and Tasmania.

Books

References

  1. Wisden 2002, p. 1558.
  2. Frith, David. "A moving record". Cricinfo. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
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