Field Hockey
Bangladesh win 3-0 through clinical set-piece use to seal seventh place at Asian Games hockey
Reading the Empty Notebook: When the Analysis Itself Gets Injured
October 10: The Empty Box Where India's Name Is Still Unwritten
Bangladesh in Pakistan's Empty Slot: The Asian Champions Trophy Squad, the Questions, and the Missing Receipt
The Blank Cells Are the Evidence: South Asian Hockey's Crisis Is Data, Not Talent
Pakistan Withdraws, Bangladesh Steps In: Asian Champions Trophy Loses Its Defining RivalryThe tournament begins with an absent match The men's Asian Hockey Champions...
Bangladesh win 3-0 through clinical set-piece use to seal seventh place at Asian Games hockeyBangladesh beat Thailand 3-0 in the seventh-place play-off of the men's hocke...
Nine Boxes, Zero Data: Bangladesh Hockey's First Audit of the 2028 CycleThe Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium at mid-morning: the watering is done, wate...
Where Bangladesh Hockey's Real Injury Lies: Twenty Years of Junior Success and the Arithmetic of One AstroturfOn Tuesday night at Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium, there were more journalis...
The 29-Goal Ledger: The Five Minutes in Jalandhar That Ended Bangladesh Hockey's Match Before It BeganThe clock hadn't even stopped in the fourth quarter in Jalandhar when the...
Bangladesh replace Pakistan in Asian Champions Trophy, open against IndiaBangladesh will fill Pakistan's vacant slot in the Asian Champions Trophy...
Twenty-Two Goals on Paper, One Drag-Flick to Trust: The Real Question Facing India Against MalaysiaThirteen on the right side of the notebook, zero on the left. The scoreline...
Strip Away the Thirteen-Goal Mountain: The Real Ledger Behind India vs MalaysiaThe tournament sheet beside India's name reads 22 goals for, 3 against. Three...
Fifty-Nine Percent of the Goals Came in One Match: Auditing the Ledger Before India Meet MalaysiaAt two in the morning I entered the 13-0 row into the ledger. The column...
India 5-2 China: The 60% Penalty-Corner Share and the Arithmetic of Those Two Conceded GoalsSixty seconds. In the 26th minute China equalise; in the 27th Harmanpreet Sin...
Asia's Benchmark in the Shadow of the Penalty Corner: What India's 5-2 Win Over China Did Not ProveI opened the notebook again. The left-hand page is old, the ink gone pale:...
Twelve Corners, One Goal: India's Set-Piece Geometry Before the FinalThe semi-final result reads 2-0. Yet the loudest number on my sheet is not th...
The Jalandhar Corner Ledger: Harmanpreet's Drag-Flick, a Father's Eyes, and a Stadium's DebtThe big screen at Jalandhar's Olympian Surjit Singh Hockey Stadium was runnin...
The Zero-Data Pitch: Bangladesh Hockey's Penalty-Corner Ledger and the Autopsy of an Incomplete ReportIn November, after Bangladesh lost the three-match home series against Pakist...
The 20th Trinity–Thomian Hockey Encounter: The Match Whose Scoreline Nobody Wrote DownI opened the page looking for a scoreline. The headline was in capitals: WATC...
Five Matches in Seven Days, Two Weeks of Camp: What Bangladesh Hockey Is Really Being Tested On in JalandharThe first match is against India on 27 October in Punjab. But when I divided...
Down 3-0 and Still Bronze: Where Pakistan Hockey's Ledger Tells a Different Story Than the FinalI do not begin with the final score. I begin with the corner ledger, because...
Bangladesh win 3-0 through clinical set-piece use to seal seventh place at Asian Games hockeyBangladesh beat Thailand 3-0 in the seventh-place play-off of the men's hocke...
Nine Boxes, Zero Data: Bangladesh Hockey's First Audit of the 2028 CycleThe Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium at mid-morning: the watering is done, wate...
Where Bangladesh Hockey's Real Injury Lies: Twenty Years of Junior Success and the Arithmetic of One AstroturfOn Tuesday night at Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium, there were more journalis...
The 29-Goal Ledger: The Five Minutes in Jalandhar That Ended Bangladesh Hockey's Match Before It BeganThe clock hadn't even stopped in the fourth quarter in Jalandhar when the...
Bangladesh replace Pakistan in Asian Champions Trophy, open against IndiaBangladesh will fill Pakistan's vacant slot in the Asian Champions Trophy...
Twenty-Two Goals on Paper, One Drag-Flick to Trust: The Real Question Facing India Against MalaysiaThirteen on the right side of the notebook, zero on the left. The scoreline...
Strip Away the Thirteen-Goal Mountain: The Real Ledger Behind India vs MalaysiaThe tournament sheet beside India's name reads 22 goals for, 3 against. Three...
Fifty-Nine Percent of the Goals Came in One Match: Auditing the Ledger Before India Meet MalaysiaAt two in the morning I entered the 13-0 row into the ledger. The column...
India 5-2 China: The 60% Penalty-Corner Share and the Arithmetic of Those Two Conceded GoalsSixty seconds. In the 26th minute China equalise; in the 27th Harmanpreet Sin...
Asia's Benchmark in the Shadow of the Penalty Corner: What India's 5-2 Win Over China Did Not ProveI opened the notebook again. The left-hand page is old, the ink gone pale:...
Twelve Corners, One Goal: India's Set-Piece Geometry Before the FinalThe semi-final result reads 2-0. Yet the loudest number on my sheet is not th...
The Jalandhar Corner Ledger: Harmanpreet's Drag-Flick, a Father's Eyes, and a Stadium's DebtThe big screen at Jalandhar's Olympian Surjit Singh Hockey Stadium was runnin...
The Zero-Data Pitch: Bangladesh Hockey's Penalty-Corner Ledger and the Autopsy of an Incomplete ReportIn November, after Bangladesh lost the three-match home series against Pakist...
The 20th Trinity–Thomian Hockey Encounter: The Match Whose Scoreline Nobody Wrote DownI opened the page looking for a scoreline. The headline was in capitals: WATC...
Five Matches in Seven Days, Two Weeks of Camp: What Bangladesh Hockey Is Really Being Tested On in JalandharThe first match is against India on 27 October in Punjab. But when I divided...
Down 3-0 and Still Bronze: Where Pakistan Hockey's Ledger Tells a Different Story Than the FinalI do not begin with the final score. I begin with the corner ledger, because...