Career
Griquas and Cheetahs
After playing for the Border U19 side in 2005 and 2006, he then moved to Kimberley to join Griquas. He played in eight matches, scoring five tries. As a Griquas player, he could also play Super Rugby for the Cheetahs.
He was included in the Cheetahs in the 2009 Super 14 season, scoring one try in five appearances.
He also scored one try in his three appearances for Griquas in the 2009 Vodacom Cup. 2010 was Basson"s most prolific season of all.
He scored five tries in just four starts for the Cheetahs in the 2010 Super 14 season, six tries in his seven matches in the 2010 Vodacom Cup for Griquas, finishing joint third overall try scorer in the competition. Bulls
Basson signed a two-year contract with the Blue Bulls Company on 19 September 2010.
He later extended his contract, signing on until October 2016.
In 2011, Basson was the joint top try scorer in the 2011 Super Rugby season with eleven tries for the Bulls, along with Sean Maitland and Sarel Pretorius. Representative rugby
= Emerging Springboks During the 2009 British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa, he twice played against the Lions. Once for the Royal XV and again for the Emerging Springboks.
= South African national team Basson was selected for the Springboks tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland in 2010.
He made his test debut on 5 June 2010 against Wales in Cardiff. On 15 November 2010 he and Chiliboy Ralepelle were suspended and sent home from the Northern Hemisphere tour after testing positive for a banned substance after the game against Ireland on 6 November 2010.
Both players tested positive for methylhexaneamine, a "non-specified stimulant" on the prohibited substances list of WADA.
