Field Hockey
Three Goals in Six Minutes, Then Twenty-Four Minutes of Silence: Malaysia's Penalty Corners and Pakistan's Last Five Minutes in the Johor Cup Final
Asian Champions Trophy 2026: India’s Squad Selection, Penalty-Corner Dependency and the Unproven Ledger of a ‘Second Line-Up’
A Hockey Stage in Islamabad, but the Clock Belongs to Diplomacy
Bangladesh's First Division Hockey League Returns After Three Years: 11 Clubs, 10 Matches, and a Question of Survival
Field HockeyA Record Built on Attendance, Not Save PercentageIf you go looking for Savita Punia's 320th cap in save percentage, you are...
Field HockeyBangladesh Hockey's Real Crisis Beyond Ranking: The Penalty-Corner Dependence Hidden Behind the 3–1 WinTwo of Bangladesh's three goals against Indonesia came from penalty corners,...
Field HockeyOne Stadium, 170 Million People: Dhaka's Hockey Reality and the Broken PipelineBefore the main gate of Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium opened on Tuesday...
Field HockeyBefore Hockey Analysis, Evidence Comes First: A Lesson From an Empty Input FrameLast week an output from a journalistic support pipeline reached my desk. The...
Field HockeyIs Malaysia Really India's 'First Real Test'? A Deep Analysis of the Fourth Round-Robin Match at the Asian Champions TrophyIndia's men's hockey team has won all three of its round-robin matches at the...
Field HockeyThe 22-Goal Mirage: How Real Is India's 'First True Test' Against Malaysia?Four matches into the Asian Champions Trophy, India have three wins, 22 goals...
Field HockeyFull-Strength Squad, Empty Ledger: The Rotation Question India Is Not AskingThe day the squad was announced I wrote a single number in my notebook: zero....
Field HockeyFull Boxes, Empty Record: Bangladesh Hockey's Information CrisisNovember 2026, Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium. In the third quarter of the...
Field HockeyThree Goals in Six Minutes, Then Twenty-Four Minutes of Silence: Malaysia's Penalty Corners and Pakistan's Last Five Minutes in the Johor Cup FinalThe 49th minute. At Taman Daya Hockey Stadium in Johor Bahru the light had...
Field HockeyFive Matches in Seven Days: Bangladesh's Real Opponent at the Asian Champions Trophy Is the CalendarFive matches in seven days. The first pushback against India on 27 October,...
Field HockeyFive Matches in Seven Days: Bangladesh's Real Opponent at the Asian Champions Trophy Is the CalendarThe tape from November 2026 is still in the second drawer on the right side o...
Field HockeyThe Empty Mohali Turf and Pakistan's Absence: Where Is the Real Story of the Asian Champions Trophy?On the evening before the knockouts began at Mohali's Balbir Singh Sr....
Field Hockey19-0: The Bigger India's Scoreline, the Bigger the QuestionThe quietest thing that happened at the Kakamigahara hockey ground on Saturda...
Field HockeyOne Line of Hockey Out of Thirty-Five, and the Blank Column in My Notebook5:10 in the morning. The tea has gone cold on the Mumbai desk and a live blog...
Field HockeyNine Scorers, 33 Goals, One Empty Ledger: What Can Actually Be Counted From Bangladesh 33-20 NepalThe first thing I did after opening the match report was not analysis. I pull...
Field HockeyBangladesh Women's Handball 33-20 Win: The Geometry Visible from Kuala Lumpur, and the Dark It Cannot SeeFirst, a correction. Most of the coverage of Bangladesh's IHF Nations Trophy...
Field HockeySeventh-Placed, Six-Team Table: Who Wrote Bangladesh's Entry Math at the Champions Trophy?Last time at the Asian Games, Bangladesh's hockey team finished seventh. The...
Field HockeyHalf a Century of Hockey Ledgers: Where the Turf Writes the Rules and the Drag-Flick Writes HistoryBefore I enter any ground, I measure something. 2026, Hockey Asia Cup, Maulan...
Field HockeySeven Days for the Last Watchman: Pakistan Hockey's Goalkeeping Camp and the Question of ContinuityI keep returning to the half-second before everything changed. At Naseer Bund...
Field HockeyAsian Champions Trophy 2026: India’s Squad Selection, Penalty-Corner Dependency and the Unproven Ledger of a ‘Second Line-Up’On 14 October 2026, after reading P. R. Sreejesh’s post, I pulled out my old...
Field HockeyThe Reckoning After Gold: The Line Nobody in Jalandhar Wants to DrawIn October 2026 I drove from Mymensingh to the Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium...
Field HockeyOnly Three in 38: The Number Shouting From the Asian Games Hockey ColumnI opened the ledger by counting 38 points. It was the Day-8 live blog of the...