# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/munir-hussain
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:51:45.036Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/munir-hussain"
name: "Munir Hussain"
slug: "munir-hussain"
description: "Munir Hussain was a cricket commentator, administrator, and journalist from Pakistan who also played a first-class cricket match for Kalat in the 1969–70 season. He was the first to introduce Urdu commentary to cricket, and was the founder of the first Urdu cricket magazine, Akhbar-e-Watan. During the 1970s, Hussain commentated on the game for Pakistan Television (PTV) and Radio Pakistan, and wrote weekly columns on cricket for the Daily Jang for many years. He received many accolades for his work for cricket. ESPNcricinfo writer Saad Shafqat described him as \"a pioneering commentator, groundbreaking publisher, Karachi City Cricket Association (KCCA) mandarin, and sagacious elder presence in the nation's cricket circles\". He also served as the president of the Karachi City Cricket Association (KCCA)."
tagline: "Cricketer (1929-2013)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1929-11-29"
deathDate: "2013-07-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.94
  momentum:             15.9
  historical:           5.070590666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munir_Hussain_(commentator)"
    title: "Munir Hussain (commentator)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "مونير هوساين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%A8"
    title: "মুনির হুসাইন"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B1_%D8%AD%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "منیر حسین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munir_Hussain"
    title: "Munir Hussain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "منير حسين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6936659"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump