Brian Bassano
Brian Sidney Bassano was a South African journalist and cricket historian.Life and career
After some years in England, Brian Bassano returned to South Africa in the late 1960s 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.
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. He moved to Australia in 1988. Several of his histories were published posthumously.
His son Chris played first-class cricket for Derbyshire and Tasmania.Books
