Field Hockey
Johor Cup Final: Pakistan Were Beaten in the 25th and 49th Minutes, Not by the Fifth ShooterThe fifth penalty stroke is not a hockey skill. It is a paperwork decision. A...
Seven Days, Five Matches, Two Back-to-Backs: Bangladesh's Real Opponent Is the Calendar, Not IndiaThe date sits at the top of the fixture sheet: 27 October. In a six-team draw...
Seven Days, Five Matches, Two Back-to-Backs: For Bangladesh Hockey, the Calendar Is the OpponentOctober 27. October 29. October 30. November 1. November 2. Five dates sit in...
Dhaka to Punjab: Seven Days, Five Matches, and the Question Nobody Asked About Bangladesh HockeyOutside Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on the last Friday of...
Bangladesh's Problem Isn't Tactics — It's Five Matches in Seven DaysI read Bangladesh's Asian Champions Trophy fixture list three times before th...
Bangladesh's Real Final Is November 4: Five Matches in Seven Days, Two Zero-Rest Turnarounds and a Bench-Depth LedgerHook Before the Friday flight, the one thing already settled was not the team...
Five Matches in Seven Days and an Unverified File: Auditing Bangladesh's Asian Champions Trophy CampaignThe team departs on a Friday. First match on 27 October, against India. Then ...
Seven Days, Five Matches, Two Back-to-Backs: Bangladesh's Real Champions Trophy Question Is Bench DepthThe brief landed a day before the team flew out of Dhaka. Three things in it:...
Seven Days, Five Matches, Two Back-to-Backs: Bangladesh's Real Tactic Isn't the Camp, It's Bench DepthThe first thing I noticed in Bhubaneswar was not the stadium. It was a page i...
Bangladesh Hockey and the Asian Champions Trophy: Five Matches in Seven Days, the Real Opponent Is the CalendarBangladesh's hockey camp closed a day before the team's flight to Punjab —...
Five Matches, Seven Days, Two Back-to-Backs: Bangladesh's Asian Champions Trophy Campaign Will Be Decided by the Calendar, Not the TacticsRead Bangladesh's Asian Champions Trophy build-up through the camp reports an...
Seven Days, Five Matches, Two Back-to-Backs: Bangladesh's Real Test Is the Calendar, Not the CampFive matches. Seven days. And in between, two pairs with not a single rest da...
