BANGLADESH NEWS
Abdul Hamid, noted sports commentator and one of the pioneers of sports journalism in the country, was laid to rest at Martyred Intellectuals' Graveyard in the capital's Mirpur Friday afternoon.
The first namaz-e-janaza of Hamid was held at his Niketon residence while his second janaza was held in front of Channel i office after Zohr prayer.
The third and fourth janaza of Hamid were held at Gendaria East and Club Field around 3:30pm and Bangabandhu National Stadium around 4:30pm respectively.
Hamid died around 6:20am on Friday at United Hospital in Gulshan where he was undergoing treatment for bone cancer, his daughter-in-law Israt Quiyum Soma confirmed.
He was 77.
Hamid, who is also the sports editor of Daily Amader Somoy, was admitted to the hospital on July 23 with acute back pain and was put on life-support on Friday after his condition suddenly deteriorated.
The noted commentator had had an operation on his prostate gland on June 12.
He left behind his wife, a son, a daughter and a host of relatives to mourn his death.
Abdul Hamid was born on September 21, 1935 at Nobodeep of Nadia in India and moved to Bangladesh few years after India’s partition in 1947.
He passed SSC examination in 1953 from the Gendaria School and took admission at Jagannath College from where he completed his HSC, honours and masters.
Hamid was involved with sports since his childhood and played football, cricket and athletics for his school and college.
He continued to play cricket till 1957.
Hamid had also started his football career from 1951 through the second division football league and with his captaincy East End Club was promoted to the First Division Football in 1953.
He was also a second goalkeeper of Pakistan White team for the National Football Championship in Dhaka.
He merely took part in football after he broke his hand in the 1960 Aga Khan Gold Cup while playing for Dhaka Wanderers Club.
Later, Hamid stared his banking career and Bangladesh Bank in 1960 where he worked for 27 years. He joined Al Baraka Bank as vice president in 1988 and worked there for 13 years.
Hamid was also a volleyball player and played the First Division Volleyball League from 1955-56 seasons to 1958-59 seasons.
He was picked up as volleyball referee in the 1970 Bangkok Asian Games. At the same time he was appointed assistant manager of the Pakistan Volleyball team in Asian Games. Later he became joint secretary of Pakistan Volleyball Federation.
After the Liberation War, he was nominated as general secretary of Bangladesh Volleyball Federation in 1976 and continued his duty till 1983.
He, however, earned much popularity after he emerged as sport commentator. He started to delivery sports commentary in 1960s in Urdu language.
He had also stared anchoring sports programmes in Bangladesh Television from 1964.
He also got involved with sports journalism and worked for Daily Jehad, Daily Azad and Daily Inquilab. He had been working as sports editor in Daily Amader Shomoy from 2003 till his death.
Besides, he was anchoring “I Sports and Sports Time,” on Channel I.
Hamid was also the founder president of Bangladesh Sports Writers Association and was a life-time member of Bangladesh Football Referees’ Association. Besides, he was the secretary general of Bangladesh Olympic Association.
The deceased commentator was awarded national sports award in volleyball in 1979 and Ekushye Award in 2003. He earned Kazi Mahbubullah and Jebunnessa gold awards in 1985.
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