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.
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.
[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.
His son Chris played first-class cricket for Derbyshire and Tasmania.