LAHORE, Dec 8: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has dedicated one of the media boxes at Gaddafi Stadium to the legendary sports writer Sultan F. Husain.

Sultan F. Husain, born in Jaipur, India, was the doyen of Pakistan's sports writers during the fifties and the sixties. One of his major contributions to sports in Pakistan was the publication of Pakistan's first sports magazine "Sportimes" in January 1956 which was an independent venture with Husain being its founder editor, proprietor and publisher.

Sultan F. Husain wrote articles on various sports including cricket, hockey, tennis, athletics and was Pakistan's correspondent for the Daily Mail (London) and the Cricketer International (London). Since 1950, he contributed regularly for The Pakistan Times and its "Overseas Weekly", Star Weekly, The Daily Nation, The Mirror (Karachi), Cricket Herald and Cricketer Pakistan. His series of interviews on Pakistan Television with various sports personalities of the country became immensely popular in the early ‘70s and he also conducted radio commentary on cricket and tennis. He passed away on October 20, 1999 in Lahore at the age of 85.—Agencies