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
- South Africa in International Cricket 1888–1970 1979
- The Best of South African Sport: Rob Armitage Benefit Year 1987 (editor)
- The West Indies in Australia 1930-31 (with Rick Smith) 1990
- A Springbok Down Under: South Africa on Tour, 1931-32 (with Rick Smith) 1991 (based on the diary of Ken Viljoen)
- Vic's Boys: Australia in South Africa 1935-36 1993
- South African Cricket: Vol. 4, 1947–1960 1996
- South Africa versus England: 106 Years of Test Match Glory 1996
- MCC in South Africa 1938-39 1997
- Aubrey Faulkner: His Record Innings by Innings 2001
- Mann's Men: MCC in South Africa 1922-23 2004
- The Visit of Mr W. W. Read's 1891-92 English Cricket Team to South Africa (with Rick Smith) 2007
- Maiden Victory: The 1935 South African Tour of England (with Rick Smith) 2012
References
- ↑ Wisden 2002, p. 1558.
- ↑ Frith, David. "A moving record". Cricinfo. Retrieved 21 January 2015.