Kabaddi
KCL Retention: How a Rs 19.2 Lakh Ceiling and Five Haryana Teams Tell You This Is Not the PKL
The Absence of Twelve Gold Medalists: The Real Story of the Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026
Behind the Golden Double: Where India's Title Broke Iran's Chain
Asian Games 2026 Women's Kabaddi Final: Why Iran Won the Bonus Line and Still Lost by Three
Pawan Sehrawat on the Bench, India vs Iran Final: One Gamble, One Chant, and One Unverifiable Edition
The Mirage of 48-24: What India's Semifinal Rout of Nepal Did Not Answer
The Quiet Earthquake of a Captaincy Change: Sunil Kumar in Charge, Pawan Sehrawat with the Flag — Reading the Signal Behind India vs JapanA quiet announcement. No press conference, no explanation, no reason given....
India's All-Out Revival Machine on the Kabaddi Mat: What Lies Behind the Highlights ReportI draw the mat on my board before the scoreline. Watching the boys and girls ...
India's 'Strongest Squad' Is Resting: What Ahmedabad Will Actually TestIn a living room in Karachi the stream ran three seconds behind. The shout ca...
From 17 to 12: What ‘India’s Strongest Squad’ Means When the Gold Medalists Stay HomeI borrowed the phone. The charger was mine. On a rooftop in Rangpur I kept...
Gold Squad Rests, a New India Arrives in Ahmedabad: The Real Test at the Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship Is Bench DepthWhen the Asian Games final ended, Iran's last raider went down on one knee on...
KCL Retention: How a Rs 19.2 Lakh Ceiling and Five Haryana Teams Tell You This Is Not the PKLRs 19.2 lakh. That was the highest price paid for any player in the last seas...
The Kabaddi Champions League Retention List: A Rs 19.2 Lakh Ceiling That Sits Below the PKL FloorWhen the Kabaddi Champions League retention list surfaced last week, I did no...
Five Haryana Teams, Ten Names and Rs 19.2 Lakh: What the Kabaddi Champions League Pre-Auction Really SaysI have been calling sport for 38 years. The sound of a kabaddi touch-point...
Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026: India's Dominance, Bangladesh's Challenge and Australia's DebutKabaddi is a traditional South Asian sport deeply rooted in India and...
India's Kabaddi Team Wins at Asian Games: Ashu Malik and Devank Dalal ShineThe Indian men's kabaddi team defeated host Japan 49-24 in their first match ...
The Absence of Twelve Gold Medalists: The Real Story of the Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026Seventeen. Twelve. Zero. Three numbers. Today's story must begin with these...
Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026: Behind the Exclusion of Asian Games Gold Medalists17 probables, zero gold medalists. Since the Indian Kabaddi Federation releas...
From Burning Kabaddi to the Nagoya Mat: Inside Japan's Amateur Kabaddi ModelI went looking for the ball and found the half-space instead. That is exactly...
Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026: India's 17 Probables, the Rest for Gold-Medallists, and the Event's Real StandardOn an October evening I sat by a club ground in Dhaka, phone in hand. On the...
Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026: 17 Probables, 12 Missing Gold Medalists — and the Real Meaning of Their AbsenceOctober 21, 2026. Ahmedabad. The inaugural Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship...
Equal Wins, Unequal Fate: How the Nagoya Kabaddi Table Cut Bangladesh's Semifinal DreamOn the final night of the group stage in the Nagoya kabaddi arena, five names...
Three All Outs and One Unfinished Ledger: What India vs Nepal 48-24 in the Asian Games 2026 Semifinal Says, and What It Does NotA kabaddi scoreboard never tells the whole story. In the women's kabaddi...
Behind the Golden Double: Where India's Title Broke Iran's ChainAt the edge of the mat at the Tokai Citizen Gymnasium, Pawan Sehrawat could b...
Asian Games 2026: The Numbers Nobody Prints Inside India's Unbeaten Kabaddi RunAt half-time the board read 23-11. Thirty-four points in twenty minutes — the...
Six Feet Above Nagoya: Pawan Sehrawat's Leap and India's Unanswered QuestionThe scoreboard at the Nagoya mat read 49-24. On paper a routine Indian win in...
From Manga to Asian Games Dreams: The Story of Japan's Kabaddi RevolutionKabaddi—a unique physical contest born from the soil of South Asia, still...
Behind the 48-24 Scoreline: The Real Crisis of India's Women's KabaddiThe moment the scoreboard read 48-24 last night, the drums of celebration beg...
How a Notebook Tells the Story of Asian Games Kabaddi Gold: The 2026 Iran Shock and the Real 2026 EquationSeptember 21, 2026, Aichi-Nagoya, Japan. If I am seated in the stands at Toka...
A Shaky Defence and a Waiting Iran: India's Real Kabaddi Test in the Asian Games GridThe fourth day of the 2026 Asian Games produced a roundup with seventy-seven...
A 22-Point Lead and an 18-15 Second Half: Where India's Real Signal From the Japan Match SitsThe first thing I wrote in my notebook on the mat at Tokai Citizens Gymnasium...
Eight Bonus Points, Twenty-Six Outs: What India vs Iran's 37-34 Asian Games Kabaddi Final Actually MeasuredI rewatched Sanju Devi's super raid three times. The first pass was to measur...
A One-Point Final, Four Different Finalists: What the Asian Games Women's Kabaddi Record Actually SaysOne point. The Hangzhou women's kabaddi final was decided by exactly one poin...
Nagoya 2026: The Women's Kabaddi Final That Has Not Been Raided YetThe Tea Table in Lyari The television in that Lyari tea shop runs all day, bu...
India's All-Out Revival Machine on the Kabaddi Mat: What Lies Behind the Highlights ReportI draw the mat on my board before the scoreline. Watching the boys and girls ...
India's 'Strongest Squad' Is Resting: What Ahmedabad Will Actually TestIn a living room in Karachi the stream ran three seconds behind. The shout ca...
From 17 to 12: What ‘India’s Strongest Squad’ Means When the Gold Medalists Stay HomeI borrowed the phone. The charger was mine. On a rooftop in Rangpur I kept...
Gold Squad Rests, a New India Arrives in Ahmedabad: The Real Test at the Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship Is Bench DepthWhen the Asian Games final ended, Iran's last raider went down on one knee on...
KCL Retention: How a Rs 19.2 Lakh Ceiling and Five Haryana Teams Tell You This Is Not the PKLRs 19.2 lakh. That was the highest price paid for any player in the last seas...
The Kabaddi Champions League Retention List: A Rs 19.2 Lakh Ceiling That Sits Below the PKL FloorWhen the Kabaddi Champions League retention list surfaced last week, I did no...
Five Haryana Teams, Ten Names and Rs 19.2 Lakh: What the Kabaddi Champions League Pre-Auction Really SaysI have been calling sport for 38 years. The sound of a kabaddi touch-point...
Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026: India's Dominance, Bangladesh's Challenge and Australia's DebutKabaddi is a traditional South Asian sport deeply rooted in India and...
India's Kabaddi Team Wins at Asian Games: Ashu Malik and Devank Dalal ShineThe Indian men's kabaddi team defeated host Japan 49-24 in their first match ...
The Absence of Twelve Gold Medalists: The Real Story of the Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026Seventeen. Twelve. Zero. Three numbers. Today's story must begin with these...
Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026: Behind the Exclusion of Asian Games Gold Medalists17 probables, zero gold medalists. Since the Indian Kabaddi Federation releas...
From Burning Kabaddi to the Nagoya Mat: Inside Japan's Amateur Kabaddi ModelI went looking for the ball and found the half-space instead. That is exactly...
Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026: India's 17 Probables, the Rest for Gold-Medallists, and the Event's Real StandardOn an October evening I sat by a club ground in Dhaka, phone in hand. On the...
Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026: 17 Probables, 12 Missing Gold Medalists — and the Real Meaning of Their AbsenceOctober 21, 2026. Ahmedabad. The inaugural Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship...
Equal Wins, Unequal Fate: How the Nagoya Kabaddi Table Cut Bangladesh's Semifinal DreamOn the final night of the group stage in the Nagoya kabaddi arena, five names...
Three All Outs and One Unfinished Ledger: What India vs Nepal 48-24 in the Asian Games 2026 Semifinal Says, and What It Does NotA kabaddi scoreboard never tells the whole story. In the women's kabaddi...
Behind the Golden Double: Where India's Title Broke Iran's ChainAt the edge of the mat at the Tokai Citizen Gymnasium, Pawan Sehrawat could b...
Asian Games 2026: The Numbers Nobody Prints Inside India's Unbeaten Kabaddi RunAt half-time the board read 23-11. Thirty-four points in twenty minutes — the...
Six Feet Above Nagoya: Pawan Sehrawat's Leap and India's Unanswered QuestionThe scoreboard at the Nagoya mat read 49-24. On paper a routine Indian win in...
From Manga to Asian Games Dreams: The Story of Japan's Kabaddi RevolutionKabaddi—a unique physical contest born from the soil of South Asia, still...
Behind the 48-24 Scoreline: The Real Crisis of India's Women's KabaddiThe moment the scoreboard read 48-24 last night, the drums of celebration beg...
How a Notebook Tells the Story of Asian Games Kabaddi Gold: The 2026 Iran Shock and the Real 2026 EquationSeptember 21, 2026, Aichi-Nagoya, Japan. If I am seated in the stands at Toka...
A Shaky Defence and a Waiting Iran: India's Real Kabaddi Test in the Asian Games GridThe fourth day of the 2026 Asian Games produced a roundup with seventy-seven...
A 22-Point Lead and an 18-15 Second Half: Where India's Real Signal From the Japan Match SitsThe first thing I wrote in my notebook on the mat at Tokai Citizens Gymnasium...
Eight Bonus Points, Twenty-Six Outs: What India vs Iran's 37-34 Asian Games Kabaddi Final Actually MeasuredI rewatched Sanju Devi's super raid three times. The first pass was to measur...
A One-Point Final, Four Different Finalists: What the Asian Games Women's Kabaddi Record Actually SaysOne point. The Hangzhou women's kabaddi final was decided by exactly one poin...
Nagoya 2026: The Women's Kabaddi Final That Has Not Been Raided YetThe Tea Table in Lyari The television in that Lyari tea shop runs all day, bu...