Kabaddi
One-Point Finals and Three Captains: What India's Women's Kabaddi 'Dominance' at the Asian Games Really Hides
The Final That Hasn't Been Played: Women's Kabaddi's 37–34 and the Stands Nobody Counted
The 16-Point Margin That Ended Bangladesh's Semifinal Hopes
Star Outside the Seven: Pawan Sehrawat in the India–Iran Final, an Explainer's Ledger and a Date That Doesn't Add Up
Star Outside the Seven: Pawan Sehrawat in the India–Iran Final, an Explainer's Ledger and a Date That Doesn't Add UpHook — The Night of Seven Names Seven names. Seven names lighting up on the...
Pawan out of the starting seven: the real story hiding behind the India vs Iran final lineupWhy didn't Pawan Sehrawat start India vs Iran final at Asian Games 2026? I...
One-Point Finals and Three Captains: What India's Women's Kabaddi 'Dominance' at the Asian Games Really HidesThe final raid of the Hangzhou 2026 women's kabaddi final ended with the...
Pawan Sehrawat, the 'Starting Seven' and the 2026 Date Trap: The Real Question Hiding in an India–Iran FinalSeven names flash on screen. The eighth name is the story. Minutes before the...
The Final That Hasn't Been Played: Women's Kabaddi's 37–34 and the Stands Nobody CountedLast week, a borrowed phone in Rangpur delivered something that no newsroom r...
Asian Games 2026 Kabaddi: The 37–34 India-Iran Final Whose Maths Still Doesn't Add UpA mud court outside Delhi, seven in the morning, fog still sitting on the...
Pawan Sehrawat on the Bench: The Real Questions Buried in India vs Iran Final Team SheetA kabaddi raid lives for exactly 30 seconds. Before crossing the midline the...
Pawan Sehrawat Out of the Starting Seven: A Bench Call, a Substitution Rule and an Unverified DateThirty seconds. That is the entire lifespan of a raider — thirty seconds to...
Asian Games 2026 Kabaddi Final: The 37–34 Scoreboard Is the Question, Not the AnswerThe Scoreboard Is Real; My Ledger Isn't Closing A scoreboard arrived on my...
37–34: A Scoreline That Has Not Yet Sweated — Auditing the Reported Women's Kabaddi Final of the 2026 Asian Games1. Hook: Four Seconds in the Final Raid In the final raid, India needed only ...
A 37–34 Final Written Before the Whistle: Verifying the Asian Games 2026 Women's Kabaddi Gold-Medal Report07 May 2026. In a working room in Sylhet, a stack of paper on the desk, a...
37–34: The Bonus-Line Arithmetic and India's Gold — The Kabaddi Sum That Still Doesn't Add UpThe chalk on the mat was still fresh. In that second-half raid, Sanju Devi wa...
37–34: The Final That Hasn't Been Played Yet, and the Numbers That Refuse to Add Up"India 37, Iran 34." That scoreline, and the out-timeline stapled to it, land...
India 48–24 Nepal: This Semifinal Was Built on Three All Outs, and Nobody Is Writing About the GapAt the halftime whistle the board read 31–17. Nepal still had all seven...
Three All Outs and One Empty Column: The 48-24 Scoreline Does Not Measure India's Real StrengthThe fourth bonus point of the first half went up while India's column was...
The Two-Point Ledger: How Kabaddi's Arithmetic Sent Bangladesh and Pakistan HomeThe stream in the Lahore living room ran a few seconds behind. By the time th...
Beyond the 48-24 Scoreline: India's Asian Games 2026 Semifinal Win, Nepal's Fight, and the Structural Crisis of Women's KabaddiBased on my years of watching kabaddi from Barishal, I expected a formality....
The 16-Point Margin That Ended Bangladesh's Semifinal HopesThat evening in September, I had two tabs open in my room in Delhi. One was t...