Kabaddi
Asian Games 2026 Kabaddi: The 20-Match Grid, Four Semi-Finalists, and a Familiar-Unfamiliar Message
Nagoya's Arithmetic and the Mirage: Why Bangladesh Lost in the Third Column of the Points Table
After the Applause Stopped: Three Teams at 2-2 and the Hidden Arithmetic of Bangladesh's Exit
37–34: The Four Points That Still Will Not Reconcile in the Asian Games Women's Kabaddi Final
Pawan Out of the Starting Seven: The Facts Nobody Verified Before the India-Iran Final
37–34: The Four Points That Still Will Not Reconcile in the Asian Games Women's Kabaddi FinalThe number from eight years ago is still scratched into my notebook in ink th...
Pawan Out of the Starting Seven: The Facts Nobody Verified Before the India-Iran FinalThe first whistle of the final was still ninety minutes away. In a room in...
That India-Iran Final: The Arithmetic Inside a 37-34 Scoreline That Still Doesn't CloseThe scoreboard still read 37-34 after the last raid, a three-point margin tha...
Three All-Outs and One Broken Number: How to Read India 48-24 Nepal in the Asian Games SemifinalThe board at half-time read 31-17. A fourteen-point gap. In the women's kabad...
The All-Out Arithmetic: India 48-24 Nepal and the Real Question of the FinalThe whistle had barely gone for half-time and the contest already looked...
The All-Out Arithmetic: How India Built 48-24 Against Nepal, and the Ledger Nobody OpenedIn the first half there was a moment when Nepal had only three defenders on...
Asian Games 2026 Kabaddi: The 20-Match Grid, Four Semi-Finalists, and a Familiar-Unfamiliar MessageIran defeated Thailand 83-27 in the first match of the final day. The scoreli...
Nagoya's Arithmetic and the Mirage: Why Bangladesh Lost in the Third Column of the Points TableOn the fourth day in Nagoya I was sitting in the press tribune with a scrap o...
Asian Games 2026 Semifinal: The Real Reckoning Behind India's 48-24 Scoreline Against NepalHook In the seventh minute of the second half, Nepal still had seven players ...
After the Applause Stopped: Three Teams at 2-2 and the Hidden Arithmetic of Bangladesh's ExitThe evening session was still running when Iran closed out Group B with a 51–...
Behind 48-24: Three All-Outs, Four Bonus Points, and a Ledger Nobody BalancedThe left stand of Tokai Citizens Gymnasium had two empty rows behind us. The...
India Rout Nepal 48-24 in Asian Games Semifinal; Iran Remains the Real TestSitting in the press tribune, I was tallying 35 raid points and three all-out...
Asian Games 2026 Kabaddi Semifinals: Where ‘Unbeaten’ Is the Answer to the Wrong QuestionLast Friday night, on the balcony of my house in Mymensingh, I was staring at...
Pawan Out of the Starting Seven: The Facts Nobody Verified Before the India-Iran FinalThe first whistle of the final was still ninety minutes away. In a room in...
That India-Iran Final: The Arithmetic Inside a 37-34 Scoreline That Still Doesn't CloseThe scoreboard still read 37-34 after the last raid, a three-point margin tha...
Three All-Outs and One Broken Number: How to Read India 48-24 Nepal in the Asian Games SemifinalThe board at half-time read 31-17. A fourteen-point gap. In the women's kabad...
The All-Out Arithmetic: India 48-24 Nepal and the Real Question of the FinalThe whistle had barely gone for half-time and the contest already looked...
The All-Out Arithmetic: How India Built 48-24 Against Nepal, and the Ledger Nobody OpenedIn the first half there was a moment when Nepal had only three defenders on...
Asian Games 2026 Kabaddi: The 20-Match Grid, Four Semi-Finalists, and a Familiar-Unfamiliar MessageIran defeated Thailand 83-27 in the first match of the final day. The scoreli...
Nagoya's Arithmetic and the Mirage: Why Bangladesh Lost in the Third Column of the Points TableOn the fourth day in Nagoya I was sitting in the press tribune with a scrap o...
Asian Games 2026 Semifinal: The Real Reckoning Behind India's 48-24 Scoreline Against NepalHook In the seventh minute of the second half, Nepal still had seven players ...
After the Applause Stopped: Three Teams at 2-2 and the Hidden Arithmetic of Bangladesh's ExitThe evening session was still running when Iran closed out Group B with a 51–...
Behind 48-24: Three All-Outs, Four Bonus Points, and a Ledger Nobody BalancedThe left stand of Tokai Citizens Gymnasium had two empty rows behind us. The...
India Rout Nepal 48-24 in Asian Games Semifinal; Iran Remains the Real TestSitting in the press tribune, I was tallying 35 raid points and three all-out...
Asian Games 2026 Kabaddi Semifinals: Where ‘Unbeaten’ Is the Answer to the Wrong QuestionLast Friday night, on the balcony of my house in Mymensingh, I was staring at...