Tom BlundellTom Blundell
World CricketFive Seamers, One Spinner and the Fourteenth Name: New Zealand's Wellington Squad Is a Pitch ForecastThe most informative name on the fourteen-man sheet was the fourteenth. Jacob...
World CricketSeven Wins in Sharjah, and the Empty Calendar Behind ThemThe last ball of the Sharjah final produced the number everyone saw: seven...
Asian CricketThe Asia Cup Hybrid Model: Where Politics Became a Calendar, and the Calendar Became the BudgetThe Asia Cup Hybrid Model: Where Politics Became a Calendar, and the Calendar...
EsportsUnscreened vs Cleared: The Verification Gap in Indian Esports ReportingA report landed on my desk with nine sections. Every section had a table, eve...
TennisCoco Gauff's 47-15 Season: The Serve Is a Reconstruction, Not Yet a WeaponThe US Open quarterfinal service-by-service sheet keeps returning one number:...
Asian CricketMajor Data Integrity Failure in Cricket Analysis: Missing Match, Players and Sources Expose Stage-1 Reporting BreakdownA major problem in cricket journalism emerges when an analysis contains no...
World CricketWho Sets Cricket's Agenda: One Podcast Teaser, Four Stories, and a Question Nobody AskedMorning, and the promo for a new episode of 'The Scoop' lands in the inbox....
Field HockeyBangladesh at the Asian Champions Trophy: Seven Days, Five Matches, and a Schedule That Outranks Any TacticThe sheet that travelled with the Bangladesh squad out of Dhaka on the mornin...
BadmintonEmpty Deconstruction: Where the Data Ends in the Badminton Analysis Pipeline, Analysis BeginsOn Wednesday morning a file opened in front of me, and the file contained...
BadmintonHylo Open 2026: Lakshya Sen's title is a 'control-game' statementWhat Lakshya Sen did after the Hylo Open 2026 final -- before he left the cou...
World CricketAt the WACA, the Match-Turning Call Was Not the 151* — It Was the ClockAt the WACA, New South Wales declared with roughly an hour left before stumps...
World CricketEight Headings, One Blank Page: The Price of 'Cannot Assess' in Cricket's Data AgeA file opened on my desk in Mumbai that evening with eight sections inside it...
Asian CricketFrom 184/7 to 362/8: Towhid Hridoy's Double Century and the Real Story Buried Under the ScoreboardThe Eighth Wicket Fell, and the Ground Did Not Go Quiet The scoreboard read 1...
EsportsWhy BLAST's 2027 Calendar Is Going Empty: Payment Delays, VRS Politics and PGL's Land GrabOpen the 2027 calendar and lay the dates for BLAST Bounty Winter and PGL...
WrestlingThe 100 Grams of Paris: In Indian Wrestling, Weight Is Endured, Not ManagedAugust 7, 2026, Paris. The official morning scale. Twelve hours earlier, Vine...
Asian CricketAsia's New Cricket Geography: The Pressure of Calendars, Leagues and a Redistribution of PowerIntroduction: One Continent, Many Cricket Economies Over the past decade the...
TennisFrom Grand Slam to Challenger: How Tennis's Real Structure Actually WorksTennis is usually viewed through four major tournaments and a handful of...
FootballGroningen's Cup Reckoning: After Emmen's 2-0 Win, the 'Shame' Isn't Tactical — It's a Ball-Retention BillWhen the full-time whistle went, the Groningen players walked towards the hom...
Asian CricketYashasvi Jaiswal Scores Second Consecutive Hundred as India A Reach 227/2 Against New Zealand AOn a green-tinged surface in New Zealand, where the new ball and seam movemen...
ChessA Review Sold Under the Chigorin's Name, With an Italian Pawn on the BoardLast week a page opened on an opening-product review. The headline read:...
