Cricket

Send the rotting corpse down the Ganges where you get you water and bathe? Okay, okay....Float the Corpse isn't funny. It wasn't meant to be offensive, and I will only apologize once. Here it is: I apologize. Maybe next week we can string up my husband and play the pinata game. I'll fill him up with treats! He is hispanic, afterall. It'll be authentic!

Cricket is definitely the most popular sport, don't know if its "official" or anything. NBA rules and regulations huh.

1) Hockey: "Hockey is the National Game of India. Hockey has been played in India for time immemorial. There was a golden period of Indian hockey when hockey stalwarts of India ruled the game. On the international scenario there were no competitors to match the magical hands of Indian hockey players. The might and power of Indian hockey made India synonymous with the game." Source and further information: http://www.culturalindia.net/national-symbols/national-game.html Field hockey: "National Symbols of India Flag Tricolour Emblem Sarnath Lion Capital Anthem Jana Gana Mana Song Vandē Mātaram Animal Royal Bengal Tiger Bird Indian Peafowl Flower Lotus Tree Banyan Fruit Mango Sport Field hockey Calendar Saka" "India's national sport is field hockey although cricket is the most popular sport in India. In some states, particularly those in the northeast and the states of West Bengal, Goa, and Kerala, football (soccer) is also a popular sport. In recent times, tennis has also gained popularity. Chess, commonly held to have originated in India, is also gaining popularity with the rise in the number of Indian grandmasters. Traditional sports include kabaddi, kho kho, and gilli-danda, which are played nationwide. India is also home to the ancient martial arts, Kalarippayattu and Varma Kalai. Martial arts practised in neighboring countries are said to have been influenced by this country." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India Further information: http://www.indianmirror.com/geography/geo7.html#GAME 2) Kabaddi "is the national game of Bangladesh, and the state game of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab and Maharashtra in India": - "Kabaddi (sometimes written Kabbadi or Kabadi) (Tamil: கபடி otherwise known as Tamil: சடுகுடு,Telugu: కబడ్డీ, Punjabi: ਕਬੱਡੀ, Marathi: कबड्डी, Hindi: कबड्डी,Urdu: کبڈی; IPA: [kəbəɖɖi]) is a team sport originally from the Indian subcontinent. It is popular throughout South Asia, and has also spread to Southeast Asia, Japan and Iran. It is the national game of Bangladesh, and the state game of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab and Maharashtra in India. It is played by the British Army for fun, to keep fit and as an enticement to recruit soldiers from the British Asian community. The name, often chanted during a game, derives from a Hindi word meaning "holding of breath", a crucial aspect of play." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabaddi - "Sunday, March 25, 2007 Kabaddi new national game for India NEW DELHI (T2N2) Alarmed over embarrassing defeats in hockey and cricket, parliamentarians in India have drafted a legislation to make kabaddi the national game of the country. Although hockey is nominally the national sport, cricket is the local craze - with the nation coming to a stop every time the Indian cricket team plays. But things have changed since India's infamous loss to minnows Bangladesh in the cricket World Cup. Kabaddi, a rural sport in which India are still undisputed champions, is now leading in the race to be the official sport of the country. Closely following on its heels is the number puzzle Sudoku and India's performance in the World Sudoku Championships at Prague might just see this sport becoming the national game. Parliamentarians are expected to take a decision on the issue by June." Source and further information: http://crazyjourno.blogspot.com/2007/03/kabaddi-new-national-game-for-india.html (according to my other sources, it seems that they stayed by hockey.) 3) "Pachisi is a board game that originated in ancient India; it is described as the national game of India. It is played on a board shaped like a symmetrical cross. A player's pieces move around the board based upon a throw of six or seven cowrie shells (a sea snail), with the number of shells landing aperture upwards indicating the number of places to move. The name of the game comes from the Hindi word pachis, meaning twenty-five, the largest score that can be thrown with the cowrie shells. Thus the game is also known by the name Twenty-five. It is a descendant of the game of Ashte kashte." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachisi Further information: http://www.gamedesire.com/la-bo,online.game-pachisi.html

Hockey is the national sport of India