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Five Matches, Seven Days, Two Back-to-Backs: Bangladesh's Real Opponent Is the Calendar
Seven Days, Five Matches, Two Back-to-Back Pairs: Bangladesh's Champions Trophy Story Lives in the Schedule, Not the Tactics
Bangladesh's Asian Champions Trophy Mission: A Two-Week Camp, Five Matches in Seven Days and an Unanswered Penalty-Corner Question
Five Matches, Seven Days, Two Back-to-Backs: For Bangladesh, the Calendar Is the Real Opponent
Seven Days, Five Matches, a Fourteen-Day Camp: Tactical Audit of Bangladesh’s Asian Champions Trophy Preparation
Seven Days, Five Matches, a Fourteen-Day Camp: Tactical Audit of Bangladesh’s Asian Champions Trophy Preparation27 October against India. 29 and 30 October back-to-back. Then 1 and 2 Novemb...
Five Matches, Seven Days, Two Back-to-Backs: Bangladesh's Real Opponent Is the CalendarWhen I read a fixture list, I don't count goals. I count rest days. 27 Octobe...
Bangladesh's Real Opponent Isn't India — It's the Seven-Day CalendarThe pre-departure press interaction in Dhaka asked the Bangladesh hockey...
Seven Days, Five Matches, Two Back-to-Backs: Bangladesh's Real Opponent Is the CalendarThe team note released on Friday afternoon contained exactly two pieces of...
Five Matches, Seven Days, Two Back-to-Backs: Bangladesh's Real Opponent Is the CalendarBy the morning of 30 October, Bangladesh will have less than 24 hours. They...
Five Matches in Seven Days, Two Back-to-Backs: For Bangladesh, the Fixture List Is the OpponentI open every file with the dates, not the formation. Between October 27 and...
Seven Days, Five Matches, One Bench: Bangladesh's Champions Trophy Trip Will Be Decided by the CalendarThe press note arrived late on Thursday. It had a flight time, a camp duratio...
Five Matches in Seven Days, Two Back-to-Backs: Bangladesh's Real Opponent Is the Calendar, Not IndiaThe captain's entire send-off statement came down to one sentence: we will gi...
Seven Days, Five Matches, Two Back-to-Back Pairs: Bangladesh's Champions Trophy Story Lives in the Schedule, Not the TacticsOctober 27. First match. Host India on the other side. I read the fixture she...
Bangladesh at the Asian Champions Trophy: Five Matches in Seven Days, and a Schedule Bigger Than the TacticsThe first thing the fixture list shows is the one thing no preview writes...
Bangladesh's Asian Champions Trophy Mission: A Two-Week Camp, Five Matches in Seven Days and an Unanswered Penalty-Corner QuestionThe notebook opened before the stadium did. On a Kolkata newsroom screen, a...
Five Matches, Seven Days, Two Back-to-Backs: For Bangladesh, the Real Test Is the Calendar, Not the OpponentBefore the last Friday flight out of Dhaka, the Bangladesh men's hockey squad...
Five Matches, Seven Days, Two Back-to-Backs: For Bangladesh, the Calendar Is the Real OpponentThe last time I watched Bangladesh play hockey, I did not watch sixty minutes...