TOP 5 POPULAR sports in India
                     TOP 5 
POPULAR
sports in 
With over 1 billion people, India is the second-most populous 
Iconuntdry  iina the world. The unique history and diverse culture of the 
country  are reflected in the wide variety of mainstream and local 
sports  played and followed by its inhabitants. The popularity of 
specific  sports disciplines, such as cricket, is directly linked to the 
colonial  heritage of the country, while many others, such as 
Kabaddi, have  more traditional roots.
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1. 
CRICKET
People of all races, religions, caste, creeds, color,s and  
gender love to play cricket in India. The Indian National  
Cricket Team has brought a lot of laurels to the world in  
recent years, and this is one of the key reasons behind 
the  country's popularity in sports.
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The Indian Premier League (IPL) is a  
professional Twenty20 cricket league in 
India,  usually contested every year between 
March  and May by eight teams representing 
eight  different cities or states in India. The 
League  was founded by the Cricket Control 
Board of  India (BCCI) in 2007.
there a list of top-rating performance of 
batting  performance.
player name matches score
s
Virat Kohli 192
Suresh 19 5583768
Raina 3 8
David 14 525
Warner 2 3
Rohit 20 523
Sharma 0 0
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2. 
Four years later, KKabadadi,b thea boddy-cdontaict sport of raiding and 
 defending between two teams, is now India's second most-  
watched sport behind cricket. From 2016 to 2017, PKL  
increased its Indian TV viewership by almost 100 million  
people.The popularity of Kabaddi has steadily increased over  
the years to the point that India became the second most-  
watched sport after the Indian Premier League (cricket). After 
an  interest in kabaddi started with the 2006 Asian Games, the 
Pro  Kabaddi League was formed in 2014.
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3.Badmint
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Badminton is a popular Indian sport. It's India's  
third most played sport after cricket. Badminton 
is  managed in India by the Badminton 
Association of  India. Indian shuttlers Saina 
Nehwal, Srikanth  Kidambi, and Pusarla Venkata 
Sindhu are ranked  among the top-10 in the 
current BWF rankings.
PV 
Sindhu
Five years younger than Saina Nehwal, PV Sindhu stormed the 
world's  badminton and took a step up on the podium after 
Nehwal's bronze with a  women's silver single at the Rio 2016 
Games. In 2019, she became the first  Indian to win a gold medal 
at the BWF World Championships and is currently  the reigning 
women's world
Kidambi Srikanth
has been India's top men's badminton player since Pullela 
Gopichand retired.
Srikanth has six BWF Superseries and three BWF Grand Prix 
victories under his  belt and was named the No. 1 men's player in 
the world in 2018.
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4. 
FOOTBALL
Not many are aware that football was once a very popular sport in 
 India; in fact, the Indian national football team was very 
successful  in the 1950s and 1960s. The reasons why football was 
reduced to a  back seat position in the country were due to the 
lack of proper  long-term planning and the emergence of cricket—
which made the  nation very successful and famous. Football is 
becoming popular  with the younger generation of Indians.
India's star football stars
SUNIL CHHETRI
Sunil Chhetri is an Indian professional soccer player  
who plays as a striker or winger and captains of 
both  the Indian Super League side of Bengaluru FC 
and  the Indian National Soccer Team.
Bhaichung Bhutia
Bhaichung Bhutia, also known as Baichung Bhutia, 
is a  former Indian professional footballer who 
played as a  striker. Bhutia is considered an Indian 
football torchbearer  in the international arena. 
He's often called the Sikkimese  Sniper because of 
his soccer shooting skills.
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5. 
Hockey
when you make an ideal for society so then you 
are always  be improving your skills,learn ~ self-
development skills The  India men's national field 
hockey team was the first non-  European team to 
be a part of the International Hockey  Federation. 
In 1928, the team won its first Olympic gold  
medal, and until 1960, the Indian men's team 
remained  undefeated at the Olympics, winning six 
gold medals in a  row.
Harmanpreet Singh
Harmanpreet Singh is an Indian field hockey player 
who  plays as an Indian National Team Defender. 
He was named  to the Indian squad for the 2016 
Summer Olympics.
Harmanpreet Singh was a member of the 2016 
Junior  Hockey Champions League. He was born on 
6 January 1996  on the outskirts of Amritsar.
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