Hussein Ahmed Manack

Hussein Ahmed Manack is a highly respected cricket commentator and analyst for the national broadcaster in South Africa, SABC, on Radio 2000 FM Sport and SABC TV, for the past ten years, covering all international Test, ODI and T20 games involving South Africa. Most recently he has covered the  England and Australian Tours to South Africa 2016, the SA Tour to India 2015, the SA tour to New Zealand 2015 and the ICC Cricket World Cup in Australia and New Zealand 2015. He was also selected to be part of M Net Supersport’s panel of cricket experts for their live TV broadcasts for the ICC Cricket World Cup in South Africa in 2003 as well as numerous other international games.    

Hussein currently sits on the National Selection Panel for the Proteas, the South African National cricket team. 

He has also served as a non executive Director on the Gauteng Cricket Board and Lions Cricket NPC, and Convener of Selectors for the successful Highveld Lions franchise that won the RAM Slam T20 competition in South Africa, the Momentum One Day Cup and finished 2nd in the Sunfoil 4 day Competion. 

Hussein has a vast cricketing background and experience. As a cricketer, he has represented the Highveld Lions (Strikers, Gauteng), Easterns, Boland, Transvaal (pre-unity – U16, U19, U21), the South African Cricket Board X1, Transvaal High Schools, South Africa U19, South Africa U 21, South Yorkshire League X1 (UK), and Shropshire U19 (UK).

He has three first class centuries to his name, along with five first class fifties, which include 179 against Western Province B and a 137 not out against Easterns. His other notable achievement was breaking the World Record for the Best all Round Club Performance ever in a single innings, when he scored 154 not out and took ten wickets for 11 runs, including a hat trick, for his club St Michaels in Dumfries, Scotland in 1990.

Hussein’s other leadership roles include captaining Transvaal and SA U19. He was also selected by the late Bob Woolmer to be part of ICC’s High Performance Elite Coaching Panel to consult developing nations in 2003.

He also holds, most recently, a New Manager’s Programme in Business Administration and Sport and Event Management 2012 from University of the Witwatersrand Business School, a Certificate Programme in South African Law from University of South Africa, a Dale Carnegie Course Certificate in Public Speaking from the Dale Carnegie Institute, and a Basic and Advanced Public Relations Programme Certificate from Birnam Business College. He also holds Level 1, 2 and 3 Cricket Coaching Certificates from Gauteng Cricket Board, Level 2 and 3 Coaching Certificates from Cricket South Africa and a National Coaching Association Certificate from the UK.