Neera RajopadhyayNeera Rajopadhyay
EsportsEvery Cell Says 'Insufficient Data', the Headline Says 'Deep Analysis': The Manufactured Certainty of Esports CoverageNine dimensions. Twenty-eight tables. Each table ends with 'analytical...
Asian CricketEmpty Feeds, False Certainty: Cricket Data Integrity and the Incomplete Promise of BlockchainLast year a ball-by-ball feed from a domestic match reached me as exactly 214...
World CricketForty-Six Balls and Two Empty Columns: The Numbers Nobody Printed in India-West Indies 2-2The notebook on my lap had one number written into its left-hand page again a...
FootballThe Ledger With No Page: Football's Blockchain Promise and the Gap in the RecordLast November I was sitting in front of a club licensing file in Dhaka. Seaso...
Asian CricketSix Wickets for a Left-Arm Spinner on Rawalpindi's Flat Deck: The Question Buried Inside Arafat Minhas's RecordIt was half past one in the morning in Melbourne. On the screen, the...
AthleticsAthletics Analysis Halted by a Null Input, Triggering a Pre-Publication Source CheckA full athletics analysis was expected to assess an athlete, a performance, a...
World CricketThe Scorecard That Never Arrived: A Lesson in Data Integrity for Cricket AnalysisIt was nearly ten at night. At a tea stall in Dhanmondi, cups crowded the...
World Cricket78 off 85: How a Highlight Reel Buries the Truth About Strike RateThe video was playing on my screen — a twenty-second reel. A cover drive, a...
Asian CricketThe Testimony of an Empty Column: The Report That Wasn't Written at the Asia Cup Data DeskAt 2:47 in the morning, the payload landed on the right-hand monitor. The fir...
TennisNothing Beyond the Tennis Domain Label: When the Raw Material for Analysis Is MissingIn recent seasons, a habit has formed in my notebook. After every match I wri...
Asian CricketPower Tariff and Cricket: When a Wrong Domain Label Shakes Data TrustI found something strange last week when a report from our desk's filter syst...
World CricketBlank Tape, Empty Scorebook: Why Cricket's Most Honest Analysis Is Sometimes 'I Don't Know'Manchester, six in the evening. A table by the window. A stopwatch on the lef...
Asian CricketMaharashtra's Structural Edge and the Shadow of Weather: An Unequal First-Class Battle at Eden GardensThe first session of the first day was completely washed out. The Kolkata sky...
World CricketNahida Akter's Armband: A Stratigraphic Reading of Bangladesh's T20I Captaincy Change and Three Unresolved VariablesMethodology note This piece rests on one document: the ICC's short announceme...
Martial ArtsRaoni Barcelos Discharged After Severe UFC Fight Night Health ScareThe primary scene of UFC bantamweight Raoni Barcelos at a UFC Fight Night eve...
World CricketBoland's 4/31 and the Others' 1/66: What South Africa's 97/5 at Gqeberha Actually SaysIn my notebook, the column I have wasted the most time on is ‘minute’. On the...
FootballThe 28-Point Mirror: When Inter Milan Erased Como's Six-Match StoryBefore Saturday's match, one number held my attention — 23. That was Como's...
Asian CricketBlockchain's Shadow on the Green Pitch: The New Game of Fan Tokens, NFTs and Smart ContractsLast year, in a night T20 match, fourteen runs were needed off the final over...
World CricketGloves, Calendars, Grass: The Women's Cricket Story the Scoreboard Doesn't TellEleven at night. I am on a Dhaka rooftop with headphones on. A television...
Asian CricketFrom 28/4 to 160: Where Bangladesh's Old Fracture Hid Inside Parvez's 70The fifth ball of the seventh over knocked Soumya Sarkar's stumps out of the...