Apart from the rich culture and diverse arts presence, India has tremendous experience and has thrived in different sporting activities. Such activities include athletics, cricket, shooting, hockey, chess and many more. Besides, the country has respectable traditional sports such as boat racing, kushti and others. In India, sport is taken as part of the Indian entertainment, culture, traditions and even spirituality.
The most popular sport that has taken India to greater heights is cricket. Cricket is a religion and the Indian society is associated with the sport wherever they are across the world. The sport is played at all levels and ages starting from the grassroots up to a national level. The game has given rise to popular personalities in all aspects of the game. Unlike in other sports such as football, the sport has given rise to the popularity of coaches and even commentators.
A second most popular sport in India is Chess. India boasts of the invention in the game. Its innovation has popularized the game to a world class competition. A legend known as "Vishwanathan Anand" took the sport through the period known as obscurity and transformed it to an interesting and a world hit. Indian chess is managed by The All India Chess Federation (AICF) which is the central administrative body. This body was founded in 1951 and is headquartered in Bombay. Currently, the state of this game in the country is excellently good. In fact there are many gifted players in the country with some rating top ten in world chess competitions.
Another popular sport in India is football which is rated second to cricket. This game is played around the country and as even as a favorable sport in some states like Goa and west Bengal. Kolkata is regarded as the home of the Indian football.
Beside cricket, hockey is taken in India as another national sport. Though the country was under political suppression for many years, the spirit of the sport did not die with the intimidations. The Indian Hockey team proved to the world that it is a force to reckon with. In post independence era, the National Hockey Lions caused a lot of havoc to the top ranking opponents with their new found strength and vitality.
Another popular sport in India is Tennis, though this game was “exported” to India by the Englishmen, the Indian tennis team boasts of some world class admired players. The ideal tennis players in India have razor sharp playing concentration, stamina and superior agility in fighting spirit and high devoted sporting personality.
Thank you so much for reading this post.
Follow me or subscribe me for new Updates.
You can share your views by commenting below.
Contact
Email : aakashmaniya@gmail.com
No comments:
Post a Comment