Author Profile
Founder
Karachi, Pakistan
Hamad Hussain is the Dubai-based Founder and Senior Editor of The Sports Encounter, where he leads editorial direction, coverage standards, and the publication’s reader-first approach to sports journalism. His primary focus is cricket, with additional work across sports opinion, athlete performance, team selection, match analysis, tournament developments, and major international sporting stories.
Hamad brings more than 22 years of leadership experience across corporate governance, operations, finance, HR, administration, and business development. That background shapes a structured, decision-focused approach to sports analysis, particularly when examining team strategy, selection calls, leadership, performance trends, and the wider consequences of results.
Before taking on his current editorial leadership role, Hamad worked with The Sports Encounter as a Sports Analyst from 2010 to 2015. Today, his writing combines fan perspective with statistical context, historical comparison, and practical analysis of the decisions that shape teams, players, and competitions.
Hamad Hussain is the Dubai-based Founder and Senior Editor of The Sports Encounter, where he leads editorial direction, coverage standards, and the publication’s reader-first approach to sports journalism. His primary focus is cricket, with additional work across sports opinion, athlete performance, team selection, match analysis, tournament developments, and major international sporting stories.
Hamad brings more than 22 years of leadership experience across corporate governance, operations, finance, HR, administration, and business development. That background shapes a structured, decision-focused approach to sports analysis, particularly when examining team strategy, selection calls, leadership, performance trends, and the wider consequences of results.
Before taking on his current editorial leadership role, Hamad worked with The Sports Encounter as a Sports Analyst from 2010 to 2015. Today, his writing combines fan perspective with statistical context, historical comparison, and practical analysis of the decisions that shape teams, players, and competitions.
July 19, 2026
Tanzid Hasan’s unbeaten 66 helped Bangladesh survive a tense final over, beat Zimbabwe by four wickets, and complete a morale-restoring 2-1 T20I series comeback.
July 19, 2026
Bukayo Saka scored a hat-trick as England survived a fierce French comeback to win a record-breaking 6-4 World Cup third-place playoff in Miami.
July 17, 2026
Sir Garfield Sobers has died at 89, leaving cricket to mourn an all-rounder whose batting, bowling, fielding, and fearless imagination changed the game forever.
July 17, 2026
Bangladesh capitalized on Zimbabwe’s costly fielding errors before Rishad Hossain and Mahedi Hasan combined for seven wickets to level the T20I series in Bulawayo.
July 16, 2026
Walsh and Ambrose have reopened cricket’s workload debate, raising a bigger question about skill, endurance, T20 money, and the changing value of Test fast…
July 11, 2026
Bangladesh secured a seven-wicket consolation win in Harare as Tanzid Hasan scored 94 and Zimbabwe’s six dropped catches ruined their chance of completing an…
July 9, 2026
Ben Curran’s unbeaten hundred and Brad Evans’ all-round impact helped Zimbabwe beat Bangladesh by 13 runs after another poor chase in Harare.
July 7, 2026
FIFA World Cup 2026 has turned referees into search stars, from Slavko Vinčić’s spike after Mexico vs Ecuador to Tori Penso’s historic role and…
July 6, 2026
Nahid Rana’s career-best 6 for 21 gave Bangladesh control, but Zimbabwe’s bowlers turned 141 into a winning score as Bangladesh collapsed in Harare.
July 4, 2026
The FIFA World Cup 2026 Round of 16 is set after a chaotic Round of 32 packed with extra-time drama, penalty heartbreak, VAR controversy,…
July 3, 2026
Portugal survived one of the wildest knockout matches of FIFA World Cup 2026, beating Croatia 2-1 after four disallowed goals, Ronaldo’s historic penalty, and…
July 2, 2026
England’s dramatic World Cup 2026 win over DR Congo peaked at 16.3 million viewers on the BBC, showing how knockout pressure, Harry Kane, and…