Field Hockey
Dhaka United Earn Premier League Promotion as Women's Hockey Development Gains Momentum
The Fixture That Has Not Been Written: The Asian Champions Trophy, a 26-Name List, and Bangladesh's Real Position
After Three Years of Silence, the First Division Hockey League Returns: The Ledger That Came Back to the Turf, and the One That Didn't
Six Names on a List, One Name Missing: The Asian Champions Trophy 2026 and Hockey's Ledger of Absence
Dhaka United Earn Premier League Promotion as Women's Hockey Development Gains MomentumDhaka United have completed their First Division Hockey League campaign as...
13 Leagues in 27 Years: Where Bangladesh Hockey's Real Scoreboard StandsI sat in the press box at Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium during the 2026 Asia...
Long Innings, Longer Nights: The Academy Archaeology of West Indies' Batting RebuildLong Innings, Longer Nights: The Academy Archaeology of West Indies' Batting...
Dhaka's Hockey Transfer Window: A Market Where the Passport Sets the Price, Not the PerformanceThe first week of November 2026. A member of Mohammedan Sporting Club's hocke...
The 29-Goal Ledger: Where Bangladesh Hockey's Sixth Place LeakedBefore the first quarter of the China match in Jalandhar had ended, three goa...
The 5-1 Margin Again: At the Asian Games, Gold Is an Olympic Ticket — But Who Is Keeping the Process Ledger?That October evening, no one outside the pitch was counting corners. But when...
Kandy Boys on Mount Lavinia Turf: The Invisible Fault Line of School Hockey Where Even the Scoreline Is MissingLast year I went to watch a hockey match on an artificial turf in Colombo....
The 41st Corner and Bangladesh Hockey's Unfinished SentenceIn the notebook from the 2026 Asia Cup at Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium, I h...
An Empty Frame Where the Hockey Story Was Never Written: The Report on Bangladesh Hockey's Crisis That Never Got FiledThe press box had one empty chair that day. The chair was mine, but I did not...
No Hockey Report Can Be Written From an Empty Dataset: The Limits of Analytical IntegrityThe hardest test in sports journalism arrives when there is no information at...
Sixty Percent From the Corner: The Gap Hidden Inside India's 5-2 Win Over ChinaThe scoreline reads 5-2. The number I underline first is three. Three of...
Pakistan's Under-19 Contracts: The Ledger With a Blank Money ColumnLast week I sat down to add a new row to my contracts ledger. The row read: t...
A Ledger of 49 Goals and One Semifinal — India vs Pakistan Hockey at the Asian GamesThe night before the semifinal, I sat hostage to a number. Five matches, 49...
Savita Punia's 320+: Goalkeeping Longevity, Shoot-out Memory and an Unanswered Succession Question19-0. September 20, 2026, Pool B of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, India again...
The Calendar That Tears Hamstrings: Bangladesh Hockey's Missing Load LedgerHe did not fall. He walked two wobbling steps and then sat down on his own,...
The Real Match in Islamabad's Hockey Tournament Is on October 10October 10. In Islamabad the decisive action will not happen on turf but on...
Thirty-Three Goals, Nine Names, and an Archive That Mislabeled ItselfNine names on the scoresheet — seven, six, six, five, four, two, one, one, on...
13 Leagues in 27 Years: Where Bangladesh Hockey's Real Scoreboard StandsI sat in the press box at Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium during the 2026 Asia...
Long Innings, Longer Nights: The Academy Archaeology of West Indies' Batting RebuildLong Innings, Longer Nights: The Academy Archaeology of West Indies' Batting...
Dhaka's Hockey Transfer Window: A Market Where the Passport Sets the Price, Not the PerformanceThe first week of November 2026. A member of Mohammedan Sporting Club's hocke...
The 29-Goal Ledger: Where Bangladesh Hockey's Sixth Place LeakedBefore the first quarter of the China match in Jalandhar had ended, three goa...
The 5-1 Margin Again: At the Asian Games, Gold Is an Olympic Ticket — But Who Is Keeping the Process Ledger?That October evening, no one outside the pitch was counting corners. But when...
Kandy Boys on Mount Lavinia Turf: The Invisible Fault Line of School Hockey Where Even the Scoreline Is MissingLast year I went to watch a hockey match on an artificial turf in Colombo....
The 41st Corner and Bangladesh Hockey's Unfinished SentenceIn the notebook from the 2026 Asia Cup at Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium, I h...
An Empty Frame Where the Hockey Story Was Never Written: The Report on Bangladesh Hockey's Crisis That Never Got FiledThe press box had one empty chair that day. The chair was mine, but I did not...
No Hockey Report Can Be Written From an Empty Dataset: The Limits of Analytical IntegrityThe hardest test in sports journalism arrives when there is no information at...
Sixty Percent From the Corner: The Gap Hidden Inside India's 5-2 Win Over ChinaThe scoreline reads 5-2. The number I underline first is three. Three of...
Pakistan's Under-19 Contracts: The Ledger With a Blank Money ColumnLast week I sat down to add a new row to my contracts ledger. The row read: t...
A Ledger of 49 Goals and One Semifinal — India vs Pakistan Hockey at the Asian GamesThe night before the semifinal, I sat hostage to a number. Five matches, 49...
Savita Punia's 320+: Goalkeeping Longevity, Shoot-out Memory and an Unanswered Succession Question19-0. September 20, 2026, Pool B of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, India again...
The Calendar That Tears Hamstrings: Bangladesh Hockey's Missing Load LedgerHe did not fall. He walked two wobbling steps and then sat down on his own,...
The Real Match in Islamabad's Hockey Tournament Is on October 10October 10. In Islamabad the decisive action will not happen on turf but on...
Thirty-Three Goals, Nine Names, and an Archive That Mislabeled ItselfNine names on the scoresheet — seven, six, six, five, four, two, one, one, on...