Field Hockey
11', 31', 37': Bangladesh's Goal Timeline Against Indonesia and the Gap at 48
Guangdong's Eighteen Days: A Provincial Opponent and National Questions in Pakistan Hockey
Behind Two Consecutive Wins, a Minus 4: The Real Math of Bangladesh Hockey at the Asian Games
The Guangdong Tour: Will Pakistan's Youth Hockey Pipeline Face a Real Test?
India 3-1 Japan: The Scoreline Says One Thing, Kakamigahara's 46th Minute Says Another
The Chain of the Turf: Bangladesh Hockey’s Gains, Hopes and Worries Inside the 3-1 WinThe Chain of the Turf is a block-by-block match report of Bangladesh's 3-1 wi...
Two Wins in Gifu: Amirul's Penalty Corners, Jimi's Return, and the India Test on 28 SeptemberMinute 48 The scoreboard settled at 3-1 in the 48th minute. I did not close t...
3-1 in Gifu: Amirul's Ball, Jimi's Gap, and an Incomplete Picture Before IndiaAround the 48th minute the board read 3-0. On the Gifu turf Bangladesh's benc...
11', 31', 37': Bangladesh's Goal Timeline Against Indonesia and the Gap at 48A goal in the 11th minute. Another in the first minute of the third quarter,...
Asian Games Hockey: Nine Scored, Thirteen Conceded — The Gaps Nobody Is Writing Into Bangladesh's LedgerOn the Gifu turf, in the 37th minute, the ball left Russell Mahmud Jimi’s sti...
Three Goals in Gifu, a Bill of Thirteen: Bangladesh Hockey's Empty Ledger at the Asian GamesHook — The Night of the Empty Spreadsheet I watch matches on two screens. One...
The First Minute of the Third Quarter: Bangladesh Hockey's Penalty-Corner Geometry at the Asian GamesThe ball was in the net inside the first minute of the third quarter at the...
Amirul's Corners, Jimi's Return: The Ledger Behind Bangladesh's 3-1 Win in GifuI was in a Delhi room around one in the morning, watching a buffering stream ...
Guangdong's Eighteen Days: A Provincial Opponent and National Questions in Pakistan HockeyThere is a column in my notebook titled “matches that never reach a ranking...
Behind Two Consecutive Wins, a Minus 4: The Real Math of Bangladesh Hockey at the Asian GamesFour matches into the Gifu turf, Bangladesh have scored 9 goals and conceded...
The Guangdong Tour: Will Pakistan's Youth Hockey Pipeline Face a Real Test?Eighteen days, six cities, more than ten matches, one provincial eleven. From...
The Kakamigahara Ledger: India 3-1 Japan — A Set-Piece Deficit Behind the 59-Goal CurtainThe Kakamigahara Ledger: India 3-1 Japan — A Set-Piece Deficit Behind the...
The Guangdong Tour: Eighteen Uneven Days in Pakistan's Hockey PipelineOn the table in my Khulna flat sits a notebook with two columns—what the...
India 3-1 Japan: The Scoreline Says One Thing, Kakamigahara's 46th Minute Says AnotherAt Kawasaki Juko Stadium in Kakamigahara, the board read 3-1 when the hooter...
A Provincial Side, Eighteen Days, Six Cities: Guangdong's Pakistan Tour Enters the Collapse LedgerEighteen Days, Six Cities, One Word: Provincial The welcome dinner is on 13...
Six Cities, 18 Days, One Province: The Gap Guangdong Is Filling in Pakistan HockeySix Cities, 18 Days, One Province: The Gap Guangdong Is Filling in Pakistan...
The First-Point Ledger: Four Things a 3-3 Draw Tells Us About Bangladesh Women's Hockey, and Three It Doesn't1 The hinge isn't in the 3-3. It's in the timeline. In the second minute Airi...
From 1-3 to 3-3: What the Ledger Says About Bangladesh Women's Hockey's Asian Games MilestoneI opened the Penalty Corner Ledger to count; I closed it with a pattern. A...