Kabaddi
Day 1 in Ahmedabad: A Score-Difference Table That Ranks Three Teams Above Others Without Them Playing
India vs England, Commonwealth Kabaddi 2026: The Scoreline Will Be the Least Reliable Number in the Building
Unsold: Four Hundred Names and a One-Day Market — Notes from Inside the Kabaddi Auction Room
Kabaddi: In Ahmedabad the List Went From 14 to 13, Pakistan Left, and No Report Records Who Was Measuring
Surjeet Singh Captain, Naveen Kumar Deputy: Before Ahmedabad, India Has a Press Release, Not a Squad
Day 1 in Ahmedabad: A Score-Difference Table That Ranks Three Teams Above Others Without Them PlayingHook One row in the Day 1 points table from the Commonwealth Kabaddi...
The Empty Column of the Third Defender: In Kabaddi, the Number That Says Most Is the One Missing From the LogThere is a column in my spreadsheet titled 'the third defender's first step'....
India vs England, Commonwealth Kabaddi 2026: The Scoreline Will Be the Least Reliable Number in the BuildingThere is a fourth match at the Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026 in...
Women's Kabaddi: Gold at the Asian Games, Zero in the MarketWomen's Kabaddi: Gold at the Asian Games, Zero in the Market August 24, 2026,...
Unsold: Four Hundred Names and a One-Day Market — Notes from Inside the Kabaddi Auction RoomUnsold: Four Hundred Names and a One-Day Market — Notes from Inside the Kabad...
Full Super 10s, Empty Understanding: Who Really Prices Kabaddi's NumbersIn the winter of 2026, the auction board in Jaipur sold a nineteen-year-old...
Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship: The Arithmetic of 62 Matches and a Calendar That Asks India's Two Teams Different QuestionsLast week I printed a copy of the schedule and ran a pencil across it....
Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026, India vs England: The Rotation Ledger Is the Real Story, Not the MarginThe first thing that went into the notebook at the Ahmedabad sports complex w...
Kabaddi: In Ahmedabad the List Went From 14 to 13, Pakistan Left, and No Report Records Who Was MeasuringFourteen names sat on the October 2026 draw sheet. One was struck off, and th...
Captain First, Squad Later: Ahmedabad's Commonwealth Title and Its Unwritten Balance SheetSurjeet Singh will captain India. Naveen Kumar will be his deputy. That...
India's Opener in Ahmedabad, and the Question No Scoreboard Will ShowOutside the multi-sport complex in Ahmedabad the crowd was thin and the sound...
Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship: The 62-Match Arithmetic Says the Women's Draw Is Not a 13-Nation FieldWhat the Ahmedabad Curtain-Raiser Did Not Contain The launch in Ahmedabad las...
Ahmedabad's First Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship: 62 Matches, 13 Nations, and the Question Buried in the 23Nine days, sixty-two matches. Thirty-nine of them men's, twenty-three women's...
Kabaddi's Incomplete Ledger: Raids, Tackles and the Count the Scoreboard Never ShowsThe broadcast cut to a raid-success graphic: 62 per cent. I counted the same...
The Captain Arrived, the Squad Didn't: Surjeet Singh, Naveen Kumar and the Empty Spaces in the Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026The press note carried two names. A kabaddi squad carries twelve to fourteen....
The Empty Cell in Kabaddi's Newsroom: An Audit Begins Where the Data DiesLast week a file landed on my desk with nine sections — rules, tactics,...
Surjeet Singh Captain, Naveen Kumar Deputy: Before Ahmedabad, India Has a Press Release, Not a SquadWhen I opened my public wrong-calls ledger, the line at the top was Jakarta...
First Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship: 13 Nations, 62 Matches, and the Incomplete Arithmetic of the Women's DrawAhmedabad, 21 October 2026. Four captains stood on the stage at the launch —...
Ahmedabad's 62 Matches and the Quiet 23: Reading the First Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship by Its ReceiptsOn the evening of 23 October 2026 in Ahmedabad, four things will be unveiled ...
Pakistan's Commonwealth Kabaddi Withdrawal: The Format Question Before the PoliticsOn the morning of 23 October 2026, the draw sheet at Ahmedabad's Veer Savarka...
The Beat of a Do-or-Die: In the Regular Season, Kabaddi's Real Strength Lies Not in Total Raid Points but in the Third-Raid DecisionThe drum stopped, and only then did I hear what the stand was saying. An...
Surjeet Singh Captain, Naveen Kumar Deputy: The Real Story of the Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship Is Iran's AbsenceThe biggest story out of the Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship, which runs in...