Field Hockey
Three Lines of Hockey, Thirty Medals: My Ledger on Day 8 of the Asian Games
3-1 Against Indonesia: Amirul's Set-Piece, Jimi's Return, and the Unfinished Arithmetic of a Fixture Sheet
3-1 in Gifu: The Numbers Buried Under Two Straight Wins
3-1 in Gifu: Bangladesh's Penalty-Corner Dependence and the Arithmetic of Jimi's Return
The Second-Minute Penalty Corner and an Undated 3-3: Auditing Bangladesh Women's First Asian Games Point
Three Lines of Hockey, Thirty Medals: My Ledger on Day 8 of the Asian GamesI keep two ledgers. One belongs to Bangladesh; the other belongs to the sport...
The Ledger Says the Semi-final Is Secured; the Drag-flick Says the Singapore Match Has Told Us NothingMy phone's stopwatch still lives in my bag. At the 2026 Hockey Asia Cup in...
The 49th-Minute Corner and the 19th-Minute Field Goal: What Bangladesh's Women's Hockey Numbers Actually SayGifu Prefectural Green Stadium, Sunday. The scoreboard stopped at 2-3. The...
Nine and Thirteen on the Gifu Turf: The Ledger Says One Thing, the Drag-Flick Says AnotherThere is a small phone stopwatch in my left pocket at grounds where nobody el...
Forty-Eight Minutes on Gifu Turf, an Eighteen-Month Gap in Dhaka's LedgerRussell Mahmud Jimi's name had been absent from the national team sheet for...
The Gifu Ledger: 3-1 Against Indonesia, and the Arithmetic That Still Doesn't Balance Before September 28Bangladesh's first goal against Indonesia came in the eleventh minute. The...
Gifu 2026: The Minus-Four Ledger Beneath Bangladesh Hockey's Two Wins37th minute. Rasel Mahmud Jimmy puts the ball in the net and the board reads...
The 37th Minute on the Gifu Turf: What the Scoreboard Leaves OutI keep returning to the half-second. The 37th minute, on the Gifu turf, Russe...
3-1 Against Indonesia: Amirul's Set-Piece, Jimi's Return, and the Unfinished Arithmetic of a Fixture SheetThe first minute of the third quarter. The ball came in from the left edge of...
3-1 in Gifu: The Numbers Buried Under Two Straight Wins3-1 in Gifu: The Numbers Buried Under Two Straight Wins I wrote three times...
3-1 in Gifu: The 37th-Minute Field Goal, a Penalty Stroke, and Bangladesh's Real TestIn the first minute of the third quarter, Bangladesh scored. Ten minutes of...
3-1 in Gifu: Bangladesh's Penalty-Corner Dependence and the Arithmetic of Jimi's ReturnBangladesh's first goal in Gifu arrived in the 11th minute, before the match...
3-1 in Gifu: The Two Empty Columns Beneath Bangladesh's Win3-1 in Gifu: The Two Empty Columns Beneath Bangladesh's Win HOOK: THE STORY W...
3-1, 5-1, 0-5, 1-6: What Four Matches in Gifu Really Say About Bangladesh HockeyEleventh minute on the Gifu turf. The penalty-corner set-up had barely finish...
The Guangdong Tour: Pakistan Hockey's Empty Turf and the Youth Pipeline TestI found the match again in a corner of the tape. This time it is not an old...
A Provincial Side, A National Mirror: Pakistan's Hockey Meets Itself in the Guangdong TourI open the corner ledger and count what the broadcast missed. In October 2026...
A Provincial Mirror: Guangdong's Pakistan Tour and the Quiet Audit of a Broken PipelineThe welcome dinner in Islamabad on October 13 was staged for photographs — tw...
India 3-1 Japan: A Semifinal Ticket, and the Empty Box in the Corner LedgerOn Friday afternoon at the Kawasaki Juko Stadium in Kakamigahara, the...
The Second-Minute Penalty Corner and an Undated 3-3: Auditing Bangladesh Women's First Asian Games PointSecond minute, penalty corner, the ball in the net. Bangladesh 1–0. Everythin...
18 Days, Six Cities, Zero Broadcast: The Guangdong Tour Is Pakistan Hockey's Most Honest MirrorFrom 12 October to 30 October. Eighteen days. Six cities. More than ten...
One Line, Four Years: India vs South Korea at the Asian Games, and What the Live Blog Leaves OutSylhet, September, 5:10 in the morning. A laptop open on the Aichi-Nagoya Asi...