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Brian Bassano

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Brian Sidney Bassano (born in East London, Cape Province, Union of 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

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Bassano moved from South Africa to the UK in 1961, playing club cricket in England. He returned to South Africa in 1966 and became a journalist and a cricket commentator on SABC radio.[1] With Donald Woods, he formed one of the first multiracial club teams in South Africa, the Rainbow Cricket Club in East London.[2]

Bassano 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 for SABC.[3] 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

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References

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  1. ^ Bassano, Brian (2001). Aubrey Faulkner. Nottingham: ACS. p. i. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  2. ^ Wisden 2002, p. 1558.
  3. ^ Frith, David (7 July 2014). "A moving record". Cricinfo. Retrieved 21 January 2015.