Field Hockey
The 4-1 in Mohali does not record that Japan lived inside its own plan for 41 minutes
The Hockey Scoreboard Lies: A Vanished Calendar and the Arithmetic of One Stadium
41 Corners and an Empty League: Where Bangladesh Hockey's Crisis Actually Lives
The Blank Scouting Sheet: Bangladesh Hockey's Real Deficit Is Information, Not Talent
Hockey Analysis in the Dark: What Does Tactics Say When Data is Absent?Standing off the field, I have often thought—if hockey is a game of numbers,...
The 4-1 in Mohali does not record that Japan lived inside its own plan for 41 minutesHook: the goal that was born from a rebound India's equaliser came from a...
The Hockey Scoreboard Lies: A Vanished Calendar and the Arithmetic of One StadiumThe final day of the 2026 Dhaka Premier Division Hockey League. I am sitting ...
The Junior Final's Penalty-Corner Philosophy: How Malaysia's Title Was Settled on Set-Piece ArithmeticAt Taman Daya Hockey Stadium in Johor Bahru, the scoreboard read 0-0 at the e...
The Hockey Federation's Silence: Who Answers for 13 Leagues in 27 Years?Thirteen leagues in twenty-seven years. That single number explains where...
41 Corners and an Empty League: Where Bangladesh Hockey's Crisis Actually LivesOctober 2026, in the notebook at Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium. The Asia Cup...
India vs Malaysia: the real test is the penalty corner and the defence, not the scorelineHosts India meet Malaysia on Sunday in the fourth round-robin match of the...
5-1 and an Empty Stat Sheet: The Ledger Behind India's Asian Games GoldThe scoreline out of the Aichi-Nagoya turf read 5-1. Familiar? It should. Ind...
India Ride Penalty-Corner Surge to 5-2 Win Over China and Go TopIndia moved to the top of the six-team round-robin table at the Asian Champio...
Sixty Percent From the Corner, Two in the Conceded Column: What India's 5-2 Win Over China Says, and What It Doesn'tTwo numbers sit side by side in my ledger, and they silence each other. The...
India 5-2 China: The 60 Percent Penalty-Corner Share and the Four Minutes Before Half-TimeTwenty-ninth minute. Four minutes before the half-time whistle. China...
India win 5-2 on penalty-corner power, but the defence leaves questions against ChinaIndia's men's hockey team beat China 5-2 in the six-team round-robin phase of...
The Sixty-Percent Door: The Gap Inside India's 5-2 Win That China Left OpenIt was half past eleven at night in a rented room in Rangpur. The ceiling fan...
The Blank Scoresheet Is Bangladeshi Hockey's Most Honest ReportThe document reached me through a very ordinary route. Not a file, not a...
The Empty Calendar as Witness: Thirteen Dhaka Hockey League Seasons in Twenty-Seven YearsThe trophy from the 2026 Dhaka Premier Division Hockey League final could not...
Lost at the Two Ends of the Shootout, Won in the Middle by the Penalty Corner: The Arithmetic of the Johor Cup FinalI found the match again in a corner of the tape. Taman Daya Hockey Stadium,...
Nine Empty Cells and One Ambiguous Word: A Report on Hockey's Data VoidLast week an analytical template landed on my desk: nine sections, more than...
Battle of Queens: The Invisible Layer Beneath Hockey's SurfaceOn a Saturday afternoon I stood beside the pitch with an old notebook in hand...
The Blank Scouting Sheet: Bangladesh Hockey's Real Deficit Is Information, Not TalentAt two in the morning in Mymensingh I opened a file that was supposed to be a...