Name Brian Bassano | Role Journalist | |
Books Mann's Men: The Mcc Team in South Africa 1922-23 | ||
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.
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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.
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 the 1990s. Several of his histories were published posthumously.
His son Chris played first-class cricket for Derbyshire and Tasmania.