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.