Asian Cricket
How Context Outruns Data on Asia Cup Pitches: A Hand-Coded Audit of Bangladesh's Underdog Probability
Asia Cup's Neutral Venues: The Twelfth Man Now Signs In on a Passport Ledger
The Fourteenth Over in an Empty Stand: Reading Bangladesh's Pace Load and Injury Silence from Sylhet
Will Blockchain Change Cricket's Commentary? From a Tea Stall to Fan Tokens, the New Allure of Data
2026-01-23Chattogram Royals111/10 (17.5 ov)Rajshahi Warriors174/4 (20 ov)Rajshahi Warriors won by 63 runs
2026-01-21Rajshahi Warriors165/9 (20 ov)Sylhet Titans153/8 (20 ov)Rajshahi Warriors won by 12 runs
2026-01-20Rajshahi Warriors133/10 (20 ov)Chattogram Royals134/4 (19.3 ov)Chattogram Royals won by 6 wkts
2026-01-20Rangpur Riders111/9 (20 ov)Sylhet Titans112/7 (20 ov)Sylhet Titans won by 3 wkts
2026-01-18Dhaka Capitals170/10 (19.5 ov)Chattogram Royals128/10 (19.4 ov)Dhaka Capitals won by 42 runs
2026-01-18Noakhali Express173/2 (20 ov)Rangpur Riders174/2 (19.4 ov)Rangpur Riders won by 8 wkts
2026-05-31Royal Challengers Bengaluru161/5 (18 ov)Gujarat Titans155/8 (20 ov)Royal Challengers Bengaluru won by 5 wkts
2026-05-29Gujarat Titans219/3 (18.4 ov)Rajasthan Royals214/6 (20 ov)Gujarat Titans won by 7 wkts
2026-05-27Sunrisers Hyderabad196/10 (19.2 ov)Rajasthan Royals243/8 (20 ov)Rajasthan Royals won by 47 runs
2026-05-26Royal Challengers Bengaluru254/5 (20 ov)Gujarat Titans162/10 (19.3 ov)Royal Challengers Bengaluru won by 92 runs
2026-05-24Kolkata Knight Riders163/10 (18.4 ov)Delhi Capitals203/5 (20 ov)Delhi Capitals won by 40 runs
2026-05-24Mumbai Indians175/9 (20 ov)Rajasthan Royals205/8 (20 ov)Rajasthan Royals won by 30 runs
2026-05-03Peshawar Zalmi130/5 (15.2 ov)Hyderabad Kingsmen129/10 (18 ov)Peshawar Zalmi won by 5 wkts
2026-05-01Islamabad United184/7 (20 ov)Hyderabad Kingsmen186/5 (20 ov)Hyderabad Kingsmen won by 2 runs
2026-04-29Multan Sultans159/9 (20 ov)Hyderabad Kingsmen162/2 (15.2 ov)Hyderabad Kingsmen won by 8 wkts
2026-04-28Peshawar Zalmi221/7 (20 ov)Islamabad United151/10 (18.4 ov)Peshawar Zalmi won by 70 runs
2026-04-26Islamabad United193/6 (18.4 ov)Multan Sultans192/7 (20 ov)Islamabad United won by 4 wkts
2026-04-26Hyderabad Kingsmen244/6 (20 ov)Rawalpindiz136/10 (17.1 ov)Hyderabad Kingsmen won by 108 runs
The Dew Over, Not the Toss Story: Asian Day-Night Cricket Is Priced on TimingA whiteboard still hangs on the wall of my data room in Sylhet, divided into...
How Context Outruns Data on Asia Cup Pitches: A Hand-Coded Audit of Bangladesh's Underdog ProbabilityOn 22 March 2026, Mirpur's Sher-e-Bangla Stadium hosted the Asia Cup final....
Asia Cup's Neutral Venues: The Twelfth Man Now Signs In on a Passport LedgerHook On September 28, 2026, at Dubai International Stadium, India beat Pakist...
Cricket's New Innings on Blockchain: From Fan Tokens to Digital TicketsAt Mirpur's Sher-e-Bangla Stadium on a Saturday evening, the first ball had n...
Blockchain in Cricket: Ticketing, Fan Tokens and the Contract Ledger — Asia's New TestAt 11:40 pm on 12 March 2026, the gates of Colombo's R. Premadasa Stadium had...
Orphans of the Middle Overs: Asia's Franchise Glare and the National-Team GapOn 28 September 2026 in Dubai, Bangladesh were bowled out for 222 in 48.3 ove...
The Auction Roar and the Academy Ledger: Reading Asian Cricket's Real Transfer ArithmeticTape 217 in my archive holds a boy whose name I have not yet dared to write. ...
Ledgers, Contracts and the Empty-Stadium Lesson: Asia's Cricket Transparency Audit Before the 2026 T20 World CupNearly twenty years ago, in 2026, my first assignment on The Daily Star sport...
Pencil Marks and Pace Rhythm: Who Is Actually Being Built in the BPL Pre-SeasonThe western gate of the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium opens at ten pas...
The Deferral Tax: Bangladesh's T20 Losses Are Written Between Overs 7 and 15The Deferral Tax: Bangladesh's T20 Losses Are Written Between Overs 7 and 15...
The Fourteenth Over in an Empty Stand: Reading Bangladesh's Pace Load and Injury Silence from SylhetThat November morning in Sylhet, fewer than two hundred people sat in the...
The Quiet Power of Dot Balls: Spin, Fields and the Real Middle-Overs Math of Asia Cup 2026I wrote one word in my notebook: "Let." That word does one job for me — it...
From Mirpur's Turn to Rawalpindi's Pace: Who Is Rewriting Bangladesh's Test Identity?I watched that Rawalpindi morning from a room in Rangpur, on a laptop stream...
Will Blockchain Change Cricket's Commentary? From a Tea Stall to Fan Tokens, the New Allure of DataI first heard that argument over a Dhaka tea stall, and it still holds. Last...
From Rooftop to Mirpur: The Ledger Nobody Keeps for Bangladesh's Pace PipelineA four-storey rooftop in Azimpur. A June midday, the heat trapped under the t...
A Thirteen-Year-Old at Auction, an Eleven-Day-Late Certificate: The Archaeology of Asian Youth CricketNovember 2026, Jeddah. On the auction stage the name came up on the screen wi...
From the Unnamed Field to the Central Contract: Inside Bangladesh's Youth Cricket Pipeline LedgerFebruary 2026. I am sitting in the western pavilion of the Mymensingh Distric...
The Chain Inside the Pause: Asian Cricket, Data and an On-Chain DraftHook: The Price of Two Stopped Minutes 50 runs in 15.2 overs. On the evening ...
Dubai Dew, the Toss, and the Asia Cup: An Autopsy of a Neutral VenueThe Night the Scorecard Told the Wrong Story Dubai, September, 9:40 pm. I hav...
The Debt of 37 Dot Balls: How Tournament Pressure Broke Bangladesh's Middle OversThe Debt of 37 Dot Balls: How Tournament Pressure Broke Bangladesh's Middle...
A Ledger Is Not a Witness: Blockchain's Unfinished Promise in Cricket's Age VerificationA small room beside the nets at a Sylhet academy. Seven in the evening, the...
Retention Lists, Agent Calls and the VAR Threshold: A Protocol for Reading the Franchise Transfer WindowTHE OPENING FRAME It is 11:47 pm. Minutes before the retention deadline close...
The Auction Ledger and Rajshahi's Silence: In Asian Cricket the Money Arrives First, the Player AfterOn the night of 24 November last year, a little after ten, ten or twelve men...
How Context Outruns Data on Asia Cup Pitches: A Hand-Coded Audit of Bangladesh's Underdog ProbabilityOn 22 March 2026, Mirpur's Sher-e-Bangla Stadium hosted the Asia Cup final....
Asia Cup's Neutral Venues: The Twelfth Man Now Signs In on a Passport LedgerHook On September 28, 2026, at Dubai International Stadium, India beat Pakist...
Cricket's New Innings on Blockchain: From Fan Tokens to Digital TicketsAt Mirpur's Sher-e-Bangla Stadium on a Saturday evening, the first ball had n...
Blockchain in Cricket: Ticketing, Fan Tokens and the Contract Ledger — Asia's New TestAt 11:40 pm on 12 March 2026, the gates of Colombo's R. Premadasa Stadium had...
Orphans of the Middle Overs: Asia's Franchise Glare and the National-Team GapOn 28 September 2026 in Dubai, Bangladesh were bowled out for 222 in 48.3 ove...
The Auction Roar and the Academy Ledger: Reading Asian Cricket's Real Transfer ArithmeticTape 217 in my archive holds a boy whose name I have not yet dared to write. ...
Ledgers, Contracts and the Empty-Stadium Lesson: Asia's Cricket Transparency Audit Before the 2026 T20 World CupNearly twenty years ago, in 2026, my first assignment on The Daily Star sport...
Pencil Marks and Pace Rhythm: Who Is Actually Being Built in the BPL Pre-SeasonThe western gate of the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium opens at ten pas...
The Deferral Tax: Bangladesh's T20 Losses Are Written Between Overs 7 and 15The Deferral Tax: Bangladesh's T20 Losses Are Written Between Overs 7 and 15...
The Fourteenth Over in an Empty Stand: Reading Bangladesh's Pace Load and Injury Silence from SylhetThat November morning in Sylhet, fewer than two hundred people sat in the...
The Quiet Power of Dot Balls: Spin, Fields and the Real Middle-Overs Math of Asia Cup 2026I wrote one word in my notebook: "Let." That word does one job for me — it...
From Mirpur's Turn to Rawalpindi's Pace: Who Is Rewriting Bangladesh's Test Identity?I watched that Rawalpindi morning from a room in Rangpur, on a laptop stream...
Will Blockchain Change Cricket's Commentary? From a Tea Stall to Fan Tokens, the New Allure of DataI first heard that argument over a Dhaka tea stall, and it still holds. Last...
From Rooftop to Mirpur: The Ledger Nobody Keeps for Bangladesh's Pace PipelineA four-storey rooftop in Azimpur. A June midday, the heat trapped under the t...
A Thirteen-Year-Old at Auction, an Eleven-Day-Late Certificate: The Archaeology of Asian Youth CricketNovember 2026, Jeddah. On the auction stage the name came up on the screen wi...
From the Unnamed Field to the Central Contract: Inside Bangladesh's Youth Cricket Pipeline LedgerFebruary 2026. I am sitting in the western pavilion of the Mymensingh Distric...
The Chain Inside the Pause: Asian Cricket, Data and an On-Chain DraftHook: The Price of Two Stopped Minutes 50 runs in 15.2 overs. On the evening ...
Dubai Dew, the Toss, and the Asia Cup: An Autopsy of a Neutral VenueThe Night the Scorecard Told the Wrong Story Dubai, September, 9:40 pm. I hav...
The Debt of 37 Dot Balls: How Tournament Pressure Broke Bangladesh's Middle OversThe Debt of 37 Dot Balls: How Tournament Pressure Broke Bangladesh's Middle...
A Ledger Is Not a Witness: Blockchain's Unfinished Promise in Cricket's Age VerificationA small room beside the nets at a Sylhet academy. Seven in the evening, the...
Retention Lists, Agent Calls and the VAR Threshold: A Protocol for Reading the Franchise Transfer WindowTHE OPENING FRAME It is 11:47 pm. Minutes before the retention deadline close...
The Auction Ledger and Rajshahi's Silence: In Asian Cricket the Money Arrives First, the Player AfterOn the night of 24 November last year, a little after ten, ten or twelve men...