Field Hockey
3-1 in Gifu: The Penalty-Corner Socket, the 23-Metre Line, and a Forward Back After Eighteen Months
The Gifu Ledger: Two Wins Hiding a 9-13, and a Single Penalty-Corner Dependency
Six Cities, Eighteen Days, One Provincial Side: Who Is Really Being Tested on Guangdong's Pakistan Tour?
Twenty-Seven Corners, Five Goals: What the Kakamigahara Ledger Says and What It Buries
Twenty-Seven Corners, Five Goals: What the Kakamigahara Ledger Says and What It BuriesI counted forty-seven penalty corners at the Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium;...
Penalty-corner weight, penalty-stroke warning: Bangladesh hockey's unwritten load ledgerHook During the Hockey Champions Trophy Bangladesh in 2026, I stood at the ed...
3-1 in Gifu: The Penalty-Corner Bet, a Returning Jimi, and an Arithmetic That Still Doesn't BalanceIn Gifu, on the eleventh minute of Bangladesh's match against Indonesia, my...
Two Wins in Gifu, One Penalty Stroke, and the Arithmetic of the 23-Metre LineA goal in the first minute of the third quarter. The match report gives three...
Gifu's Win, Dhaka's Ledger: Nine Goals of Encouragement and Thirteen of WarningOn the opening minute of the third quarter in Gifu the ball crossed the line...
Gifu Diary: Three Numbers and One Uncomfortable Truth Behind Bangladesh Hockey's Two Straight WinsFour matches, nine goals scored, thirteen conceded. Two straight wins. Read...
Two Wins, 13 Conceded: The Scoreboard in Gifu Does Not Answer the Structural QuestionThe result was settled by the 48th minute. Bangladesh led Indonesia 3-0 in th...
3-1 Against Indonesia: Where Bangladesh's Win Is Real, and Where It Is Only a NumberThe first minute of the second half is a test in hockey. I have always compar...
The Last Fifteen Minutes: Jimi's Eighteen Months, Amirul's Penalty Corners and the Ledger of a Half-League48th minute. The scoreboard read 3-1. Indonesia had just been awarded a penal...
The Gifu Ledger: Nine Scored, Thirteen Conceded, and One Drag-Flick's ArithmeticIn Gifu, in the 11th minute, the ball was injected into the penalty-corner...
3-1 in Gifu: The Penalty-Corner Socket, the 23-Metre Line, and a Forward Back After Eighteen MonthsI rewound the 11th-minute goal against Indonesia three times. The real questi...
Bangladesh 3-1 in Gifu: Penalty-Corner Dependency, Jimi's Return, and the 28 September TestThe 48th minute. Bangladesh led 3-0 on the Gifu turf when Indonesia were...
The Gifu Ledger: Two Wins Hiding a 9-13, and a Single Penalty-Corner Dependency3-1. The scoreboard says Bangladesh won, and the manner of the win was...
The Gifu Score Sheet: Two Wins, and the Thirteen Goals Behind the LightGifu, Japan. The first minute of the third quarter. The board read 2-0....
Four Timestamps in Gifu and One Unclosed Ledger: Reading Bangladesh Hockey's Two Wins From the InsideHook: The Data Nobody Kept Gifu, Japan. Bangladesh 3-1 Indonesia, the team's...
A Provincial Side, Six Cities, Eighteen Days: The Real Ledger of Pakistan's October TourRajshahi, half past midnight. The laptop was playing a tape from 2026 — a Dha...
Guangdong Comes Calling: Six Cities, Eighteen Days, and a Question That Sits at the Desk, Not on the TurfGuangdong Comes Calling: Six Cities, Eighteen Days, and a Question That Sits ...
A Provincial Side, A National Question: Guangdong's Pakistan Tour and Hockey's Unfinished LedgerA Provincial Side, A National Question: Guangdong's Pakistan Tour and Hockey'...
The 3-1 in Kakamigahara: What the Scoreboard Hides, and the Question Nobody Is Asking About Women's HockeyKawasaki Juko Stadium in Kakamigahara, midday heat sitting at sixty degrees o...
From 19-0 to 3-1: India's Load Curve, and Bangladesh's One TurfThe clock in Kakamigahara had barely turned over into the fourth quarter when...