Field Hockey
Bangladesh's 33-20 Win on the Dhaka Court: Alpana Akter's Seven Goals, but the Defensive Numbers Stay Silent
33-20 in Dhaka: A Tape Audit of Bangladesh's Win and Three Risks Before India
From Visa to Pakistan's Absence: Bangladesh's Asian Champions Trophy Entry Is Vacancy-Filling, Not Qualification
Bangladesh's ACT Audit: An 18-Man Claim, 16 Names, Two Weeks of Prep and One Visa Deadline
Bangladesh's 33-20 Win on the Dhaka Court: Alpana Akter's Seven Goals and the Second-Half Question the Scoreboard Cannot AnswerWhen the final whistle blew on the Dhaka court, the scoreboard read 33-20. A...
Bangladesh's 33-20 Win on the Dhaka Court: Alpana Akter's Seven Goals, but the Defensive Numbers Stay SilentAt the end of the first half on the Dhaka court, the scoreboard read 13-9....
33-20 in Dhaka: A Tape Audit of Bangladesh's Win and Three Risks Before IndiaBangladesh scored 20 goals in the second half. They scored 13 in the first....
Bangladesh's 33-20 Win on the Dhaka Court: Second-Half Explosion, But Defensive Questions RemainBangladesh's women's handball team beat Nepal 33-20 on the Dhaka court. The...
An 18-Man Claim, 16 Names and a Two-Week Camp: Bangladesh's ACT Ticket Was Written by Pakistan's AbsenceMy method for reading a squad list has been the same for years: count first,...
The Real Score of Bangladesh's 33-20 Win: 20 Goals in the Second Half, But Conceding 20 Is the WarningBefore the final whistle at the Dhaka court, the scoreboard read 33-20....
Behind Bangladesh's 33-20 Win: The Second-Half Explosion, But the Real Test of the Defence Is Yet to ComeHook: The scoreboard says 33-20, but the numbers say something else When the...
From Visa to Pakistan's Absence: Bangladesh's Asian Champions Trophy Entry Is Vacancy-Filling, Not QualificationFour days before the tournament begins, a note comes out of Dhaka: the...
Bangladesh in Asian Champions Trophy via Pakistan's Absence: German Coach, Two-Week Camp, 18 Claimed, 16 ListedBefore Bangladesh's hockey team boards its flight from Dhaka on October 23, t...
Eighteen Claimed, Sixteen Named: Bangladesh's Asian Champions Trophy Entry Has Its First Crack in the Roster ItselfEighteen Claimed, Sixteen Named: Bangladesh's Asian Champions Trophy Entry Ha...
Thirty-Three Goals in Dhaka, and a Defence Claim With No BaselineIt was close to two in the morning when the Dhaka stream finally loaded in my...
The 33-20 Ledger Audit: Bangladesh's Win Was Built in the Second Half, and the Defence Claim Still Has No BaselineThirty-three. Nine names. Seven, six, six, five, four, two, one, one, one. Ad...
Bangladesh's ACT Audit: An 18-Man Claim, 16 Names, Two Weeks of Prep and One Visa DeadlineHook The first thing wrong with Bangladesh's Asian Champions Trophy squad lis...
Eighteen Announced, Sixteen Named: Bangladesh's Asian Champions Trophy Squad and the Team That Took Someone Else's SeatThe list that came out of Dhaka on an October morning carried a small...
An 18-Man Claim, Sixteen Names Printed: The Arithmetic That Doesn't Add Up in Bangladesh's Asian Champions Trophy SquadBangladesh have announced their squad for the Asian Champions Trophy, which...
Bangladesh's Asian Champions Trophy Ticket: A Chance Gifted by Pakistan's Absence, But Only Two Weeks of PreparationBangladesh men's hockey team's journey to the Asian Champions Trophy (ACT) is...
Bangladesh's 33-20 Win in Dhaka: A 13-Goal Margin Over Nepal, But Who Pays for Conceding 20?I was sitting on the third tier of an empty stand forty metres from the court...
An 18-Man Squad, 16 Names: The Arithmetic Problem Inside Bangladesh's Asian Champions Trophy EntryAt a desk in Quetta, late at night, I was counting names on a squad list. The...
Bangladesh's 33-20 Win on the Dhaka Court: Alpana Akter's Seven Goals, but the Defensive Numbers Stay SilentAt the end of the first half on the Dhaka court, the scoreboard read 13-9....
33-20 in Dhaka: A Tape Audit of Bangladesh's Win and Three Risks Before IndiaBangladesh scored 20 goals in the second half. They scored 13 in the first....
Bangladesh's 33-20 Win on the Dhaka Court: Second-Half Explosion, But Defensive Questions RemainBangladesh's women's handball team beat Nepal 33-20 on the Dhaka court. The...
An 18-Man Claim, 16 Names and a Two-Week Camp: Bangladesh's ACT Ticket Was Written by Pakistan's AbsenceMy method for reading a squad list has been the same for years: count first,...
The Real Score of Bangladesh's 33-20 Win: 20 Goals in the Second Half, But Conceding 20 Is the WarningBefore the final whistle at the Dhaka court, the scoreboard read 33-20....
Behind Bangladesh's 33-20 Win: The Second-Half Explosion, But the Real Test of the Defence Is Yet to ComeHook: The scoreboard says 33-20, but the numbers say something else When the...
From Visa to Pakistan's Absence: Bangladesh's Asian Champions Trophy Entry Is Vacancy-Filling, Not QualificationFour days before the tournament begins, a note comes out of Dhaka: the...
Bangladesh in Asian Champions Trophy via Pakistan's Absence: German Coach, Two-Week Camp, 18 Claimed, 16 ListedBefore Bangladesh's hockey team boards its flight from Dhaka on October 23, t...
Eighteen Claimed, Sixteen Named: Bangladesh's Asian Champions Trophy Entry Has Its First Crack in the Roster ItselfEighteen Claimed, Sixteen Named: Bangladesh's Asian Champions Trophy Entry Ha...
Thirty-Three Goals in Dhaka, and a Defence Claim With No BaselineIt was close to two in the morning when the Dhaka stream finally loaded in my...
The 33-20 Ledger Audit: Bangladesh's Win Was Built in the Second Half, and the Defence Claim Still Has No BaselineThirty-three. Nine names. Seven, six, six, five, four, two, one, one, one. Ad...
Bangladesh's ACT Audit: An 18-Man Claim, 16 Names, Two Weeks of Prep and One Visa DeadlineHook The first thing wrong with Bangladesh's Asian Champions Trophy squad lis...
Eighteen Announced, Sixteen Named: Bangladesh's Asian Champions Trophy Squad and the Team That Took Someone Else's SeatThe list that came out of Dhaka on an October morning carried a small...
An 18-Man Claim, Sixteen Names Printed: The Arithmetic That Doesn't Add Up in Bangladesh's Asian Champions Trophy SquadBangladesh have announced their squad for the Asian Champions Trophy, which...
Bangladesh's Asian Champions Trophy Ticket: A Chance Gifted by Pakistan's Absence, But Only Two Weeks of PreparationBangladesh men's hockey team's journey to the Asian Champions Trophy (ACT) is...
Bangladesh's 33-20 Win in Dhaka: A 13-Goal Margin Over Nepal, But Who Pays for Conceding 20?I was sitting on the third tier of an empty stand forty metres from the court...
An 18-Man Squad, 16 Names: The Arithmetic Problem Inside Bangladesh's Asian Champions Trophy EntryAt a desk in Quetta, late at night, I was counting names on a squad list. The...