Field Hockey
Twenty Years of Ledger: Bangladesh Women's First Asian Games Hockey Point
Nine Names, One Scoresheet: The Handball Questions Buried Beneath a 33-20 Win
No Ball Bowled, No Field Tested: How a Cricket Rule, Not a Performance, Put Pakistan in the Asian Games Semi-final
Three Years Later, Dhaka's Hockey Returns — But Not Its Calendar
Testimony of the Empty Column: Before We Fill Bangladesh Hockey's Injury Ledger With Story, We Should Read What It Does Not Contain1. A Sheet of Paper at 11:30 PM It is half past eleven at the Mumbai desk. A...
No Hockey Story, Only an Empty Analysis: A Match Cannot Be Judged Without EvidenceThe analysis arrives under the label of hockey, but it names no team, player,...
Dhaka United Promoted to Premier League as Women’s Goalkeeper Camp Signals Development HopeBangladesh’s domestic field hockey scene has produced a combined story of...
28 Points for Promotion, Goalkeepers from 22 Districts: Two Different Development Stories in Bangladesh Hockey28 Points for the Title, but the Real Test Lies Ahead The number at the top o...
Zero Corners, Eleven Circle Entries: The Real Ledger Inside India's 4-1 FinalRajshahi, half past eleven at night. On the laptop, a final in Punjab. In my...
The 47th-Minute Door: Bangladesh Hockey's Real Crisis Lies Not in Finals but in the Silence Outside ThemAt 7:42 PM, sitting in the third row of the Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium...
Jalandhar's 30 Goals Measure India's Patience, Not Their DepthOn Wednesday evening I was sitting on the balcony of my rented room in Rangpu...
Hangzhou's 106 Medals: The Number Grew, But Did the Substance?October 7, 2026. The men's javelin final in Hangzhou. A bizarre technical...
170 Million in One Stadium's Mirror: The Absence Ledger of Dhaka's HockeySix in the evening. In the Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium press box, one...
India vs Malaysia: The Real Test Hidden by 22 GoalsI have spent many evenings in the old press box at Maulana Bhasani Hockey...
India's real test is not Malaysia's quality but its own penalty-corner dependenceIndia's men's hockey team faces Malaysia on Sunday in the fourth round-robin...
Thirteen of Twenty-Two: India's Real Test Against Malaysia Is Not on the ScoreboardSunday, the fourth round-robin fixture: India against Malaysia. The table sho...
Every Field Filled, Nothing Recorded: An Audit of Hockey's Record SystemThe record that landed on my desk on Tuesday morning is structurally...
India vs South Korea Hockey: The LA28 Equation Hidden in One Line of a 35-Point Live BlogFive-ten in the morning. I refreshed the live blog on my phone and stopped at...
Twenty Years of Ledger: Bangladesh Women's First Asian Games Hockey PointI sat with an old score sheet from Dhaka, one where Bangladesh's 1-0 loss to...
The 25-Lakh Cheque and the 44-Year Arithmetic: What the Ledger Cannot Reconcile in India's Women's Hockey GoldThe Mizoram government's announcement arrived in a single line: two hockey...
Nine Names, One Scoresheet: The Handball Questions Buried Beneath a 33-20 WinI sat with the scoresheet for a long while last night. 33-20. My eye caught t...
No Ball Bowled, No Field Tested: How a Cricket Rule, Not a Performance, Put Pakistan in the Asian Games Semi-finalNothing landed on the pitch at Nisshin. Not one over was bowled, not one...
No Hockey Story, Only an Empty Analysis: A Match Cannot Be Judged Without EvidenceThe analysis arrives under the label of hockey, but it names no team, player,...
Dhaka United Promoted to Premier League as Women’s Goalkeeper Camp Signals Development HopeBangladesh’s domestic field hockey scene has produced a combined story of...
28 Points for Promotion, Goalkeepers from 22 Districts: Two Different Development Stories in Bangladesh Hockey28 Points for the Title, but the Real Test Lies Ahead The number at the top o...
Zero Corners, Eleven Circle Entries: The Real Ledger Inside India's 4-1 FinalRajshahi, half past eleven at night. On the laptop, a final in Punjab. In my...
The 47th-Minute Door: Bangladesh Hockey's Real Crisis Lies Not in Finals but in the Silence Outside ThemAt 7:42 PM, sitting in the third row of the Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium...
Jalandhar's 30 Goals Measure India's Patience, Not Their DepthOn Wednesday evening I was sitting on the balcony of my rented room in Rangpu...
Hangzhou's 106 Medals: The Number Grew, But Did the Substance?October 7, 2026. The men's javelin final in Hangzhou. A bizarre technical...
170 Million in One Stadium's Mirror: The Absence Ledger of Dhaka's HockeySix in the evening. In the Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium press box, one...
India vs Malaysia: The Real Test Hidden by 22 GoalsI have spent many evenings in the old press box at Maulana Bhasani Hockey...
India's real test is not Malaysia's quality but its own penalty-corner dependenceIndia's men's hockey team faces Malaysia on Sunday in the fourth round-robin...
Thirteen of Twenty-Two: India's Real Test Against Malaysia Is Not on the ScoreboardSunday, the fourth round-robin fixture: India against Malaysia. The table sho...
Every Field Filled, Nothing Recorded: An Audit of Hockey's Record SystemThe record that landed on my desk on Tuesday morning is structurally...
India vs South Korea Hockey: The LA28 Equation Hidden in One Line of a 35-Point Live BlogFive-ten in the morning. I refreshed the live blog on my phone and stopped at...
Twenty Years of Ledger: Bangladesh Women's First Asian Games Hockey PointI sat with an old score sheet from Dhaka, one where Bangladesh's 1-0 loss to...
The 25-Lakh Cheque and the 44-Year Arithmetic: What the Ledger Cannot Reconcile in India's Women's Hockey GoldThe Mizoram government's announcement arrived in a single line: two hockey...
Nine Names, One Scoresheet: The Handball Questions Buried Beneath a 33-20 WinI sat with the scoresheet for a long while last night. 33-20. My eye caught t...
No Ball Bowled, No Field Tested: How a Cricket Rule, Not a Performance, Put Pakistan in the Asian Games Semi-finalNothing landed on the pitch at Nisshin. Not one over was bowled, not one...