Kabaddi
Sunil Kumar's Captaincy, Pawan Sehrawat's Silence, and India's Real Test Against JapanIt was 4:40 in the morning in Barishal. On the roof, my phone was loading a...
From Rangpur's Clay Court to the Kabaddi Ledger: Where the Statistics Stop, the Story BeginsThe Match Nobody Televised On a winter clay court in Rangpur in 2026, a...
Ten Teams of the Kabaddi Champions League: The 'Champions' That Is Really One State's StoryTen teams, ten city names — Jhajjar, Kurukshetra, Bhiwani, Rohtak, Karnal,...
Kabaddi Champions League's 10 Teams: A Haryana Regional League Wrapped in 'Champions' BrandingKabaddi Champions League's 10 Teams: A Haryana Regional League Wrapped in...
India's Four Women's Kabaddi Golds at the Asian Games: Historical Pattern, Structural Reality and an Unresolved Verification QuestionA report published recently by an English-language sports website claims that...
Kabaddi: Strategy, Culture and Commerce of a Sport That Travelled From Clay Courts to Global ArenasKabaddi looks deceptively simple. There is no ball, no bat, no goalpost and n...
Empty Source Material for a Kabaddi Report: Caution Before Publishing Analysis-Based CoverageThis report opens with an unusual disclosure: it is not a match report, and i...
India's Double Crown: Hosts Sweep Both Titles at Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026India's Double Crown: Hosts Sweep Both Titles at Commonwealth Kabaddi...
The Arithmetic of the Third Raid: Where 'Momentum' Collapses in KabaddiThe third raid. Nothing has yet appeared on the scoreboard, but the two corne...
Thirteen Nations, Nine Days, Zero Names: The Empty Column in the Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship LedgerLast night I was reading a preview piece on the Commonwealth Kabaddi...
Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026: The 62-Match Arithmetic That Raises the Real QuestionI stopped at the schedule because the schedule said thirty-two matches in six...
Commonwealth Kabaddi in Ahmedabad: The Story Nobody Is Writing Inside 62 MatchesI was standing in that corner of the Ahmedabad indoor arena where the warm-up...
What 37-21 Doesn't Say: The Real Arithmetic Behind India's Unbeaten Asian Games Run23-11. Those two numbers were still glowing on the half-time board, and anoth...
Not the Logo but the Test: The Real Signal of the Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026The first thing I did when the official logo appeared was pause the image. On...
Kabaddi Champions League Retention List: How a Rs 19.2 Lakh Ceiling Separates a Haryana Regional League from the PKLThe paperwork of retention and the architecture of the salary ceiling are the...
The Lesson of 11 Bonus Points: Reading India vs Bangladesh at the Asian Games Without the ScoreboardThe raider steps into a 30-second room. He has to keep his throat running —...
The Logo Arrived, the Rivals Didn't: Reading the Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026I have an old bad habit when it comes to kabaddi logos. More than what a logo...
Six Feet of Air, Rs 2.6 Crore: Who Will Balance Kabaddi's Star EconomyAt the opening ceremony in Nagoya, when Pawan Sehrawat carried India's flag o...
Beyond the Bonus Line: Why India's 42-21 Win Over Bangladesh at the Asian Games Is Not the Real Score42-21. That was the number burning on the scoreboard at the Aichi-Nagoya hall...
Gold on the Mat, a Dispute on the Ledger: Where the Real Trap in Ritu Negi's Exclusion LiesThe sports department file in Himachal Pradesh changed just two days ago. Aft...
Thirty Seconds of Clock, Two Nations of Rhythm: India's Storm and Bangladesh's Real Test on the Asian Games Kabaddi MatI walked in a fan and left with the team. I first wrote that line properly on...
Record Fourth Gold, But Nobody Is Telling the Real Story of Women's KabaddiI could not forget those final moments of the Hangzhou 2026 final — when all ...
Pawan Sehrawat Left Out, No Asian Games Gold Medalist Either: What India's Probable Squad for the Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship Actually SignalsIn October I was sitting in the Rajshahi District Stadium stands, following a...
How Kabaddi Scorelines Lie: India's 63-31, Chinese Taipei's One Point, and the Absence of IranOne point. That was the margin in Chinese Taipei versus Bangladesh — the kind...
Why Pawan Sehrawat Didn't Start: Team Sheets, Ledgers, and a Date That Doesn't Add UpThe team sheet reached my phone seven minutes before the first whistle. Seven...
