Field Hockey
The Singapore Fixture and the Shadow of the Semi-final: India's Women's Hockey Still Awaits Its Real Test at the Asian GamesIn a Corner of the Tape I found the match again in a corner of the tape. A...
Four of Nine Goals From Defenders: Bangladesh Hockey's Picture, Ledger and a Missing Date at the Asian GamesThe 48th Minute In the 48th minute the umpire's right arm went up, and inside...
The 9-13 Ledger: What Bangladesh's Hockey in Gifu Refuses to HideI began with the corner ledger, not the final score. Gifu, Japan. The Asian...
Forty-Eight Minutes on the Gifu Turf: Amirul's Flick, Jimi's Return, and the 9-13 LedgerThe stream split into three pieces at exactly that moment. In Gifu, eleventh...
3-1 in Gifu: The Arithmetic That Does Not Add Up Behind Two WinsGifu, Japan — the first minute of the third quarter. The ball enters the net....
Amirul's Flick, Jimi's Return and the 28 September Question: Inside Bangladesh's 3-1 Win over IndonesiaRussell Mahmud Jimi's 37th-minute goal landed in the small column of my...
Gifu's 3-0 and the Penalty Stroke That Followed: Bangladesh Hockey's Crack Sits in the Load Ledger, Not the ScorelineGifu's 3-0 and the Penalty Stroke That Followed: Bangladesh Hockey's Crack Si...
Nine Goals of Origin, Thirteen of Ledger: Reading Bangladesh Hockey's Documents at the Asian GamesThe eleventh minute. Then the first minute of the third quarter. Then the...
3-1 in Gifu: The Numbers 9 and 13 Buried Under Bangladesh's WinIn Gifu, in the 37th minute, Russell Mahmud Jimi put the ball in the net. The...
Bangladesh Hockey's Two Economies: Penalty Corners, Field Goals and the September 28 TestIn the 48th minute against Indonesia the scoreboard read 3-0. On the Gifu tur...
The 3–1 Ledger: Two Wins and the Arithmetic of Four Matches for Bangladesh HockeyBefore the ball entered the circle in Gifu, I had to add a new column to my...
Jimi Is Back, Amirul Scored — The Calendar Inside Bangladesh's Two Wins Nobody Is ReadingIt is half past three in the morning in a Delhi flat, and the screen is showi...
3-1 in Gifu: A Frame of Two Wins, and One Empty BoxMinute eleven. A penalty corner is being set outside the circle, and I am...
Bangladesh 3-1 in Gifu: The 9-13 Arithmetic Behind Two Straight WinsI found the match again in a corner of the tape. Bangladesh against Indonesia...
The Real Ledger of the Guangdong Tour: An 18-Day Calendar Nobody Is CountingA sixteen-year-old centre-half is asleep against a bus window. It is the sixt...
Corner Ledger Open: Bangladesh's 3-1 Win in Gifu and the 13 Goals Conceded in Four MatchesOn the AstroTurf in Gifu, the clock touched the 11th minute and I drew an arr...
The 11th Minute, the First Minute of Q3, the 37th Minute: Inside Bangladesh's 3-1 Win Over IndonesiaBefore the first whistle at Gifu's astro turf I don't write the score in my...
Not 20-0, But 3-1: India's Press-Release Gap Against JapanI paused the frame for the third time on the 30th-minute goal. Yu Kudo had ju...
