National Sports and it's Tournaments

General News | Oct-28-2022

National Sports and it's Tournaments

Sports in India allude to the enormous assortment of games played in India, going from ancestral games to more standard games, for example, cricket, football, field hockey, badminton, and kabaddi. India's variety of cultures, individuals, and clans are reflected in the wide assortment of donning disciplines in the country.

Cricket has been the most famous game in India, the nation has facilitated and won the Cricket World Cup in different events. Field Hockey is the best game for India at the Olympic Games; the Indian men's group has won twelve Olympic decorations including eight gold awards. Other famous games in India are football, badminton, Kabaddi, Shooting, Wrestling, boxing, tennis, squash, weightlifting, acrobatics, sports, table tennis, ball, and volleyball. Famous native games incorporate Chess, Kho, Cycling, contender kite, leg Cricket, polo, snooker, Gilli danda, and Rugby.

Kabaddi is an old game and one of the quickest-developing games in India. India won many matches and times of Kabaddi at the Asian Games, Kabaddi at the South Asian Games, the Asian Kabaddi Title, and each of the three times of Kabaddi World Cup (Standard style) and Ladies' Kabaddi World Cup (Circle Style). India Men's group and Ladies' group both are the best Kabaddi sport.

India has facilitated and co-facilitated a few global games, most eminently the 1951 and 1982 Asian Games, 1987, 1995, and 2016 South Asian Games, the 2010 Federation Games, the 2014 Lusofonia Games, the 1987, 1996, and 2011, 2023 Cricket World Cups, 1978, 1997, 2013, 2025 Ladies' Cricket World Cups, the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup, and the 2022 FIFA U-17 Ladies' Reality Cup.

Homegrown elite athletics associations in the nation incorporate the Indian Chief Association (Twenty20 cricket), the Indian Super Association and the I-Association (football), the Genius Kabaddi Association (kabaddi), the Hockey India Association (hockey), Head Badminton Association (badminton), the Ace Wrestling Association (wrestling), A definitive Table Tennis Association (table tennis), and the Excellent Volleyball Association (volleyball), A definitive Kho Association (Kho).

Significant global games every year held in India incorporate the Maharashtra Open in tennis, the Indian Open in golf, the India Open in badminton, India Open (table tennis).

By : Parth Yadav
Anand School of Excellence

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