Famous games of India

Including :-
Boat racing football
Cricket
F1 racing
Volleyball
Hockey
Basketball
Badminton
Lawn tennis
 Boat Racing
The Boat Race is an annual rowing race between the Oxford University Boat Club and
the Cambridge University Boat Club, rowed between men's open-weight eights on
the River Thames in London, England. It is also known as the University Boat Race and
the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race.
The first race was in 1829 and the event has been held annually since 1856, except during
the First and Second World Wars. Since 2015, the Women's Boat Race has taken place on
the same day and course, the combined event of two races becoming known as "The Boat
Races", or by a title that includes the name of its official charity, '"The Cancer Research
UK Boat Races", BNY Mellon having donated its sponsorship to the charity.[4][5] Although
The Boat Race crews are male, the coxes can be men or women. In the 2017 race, which
took place on Sunday 2 April 2017, Oxford won in a close battle.
 Football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball with the foot to score a goal.
Unqualified, the word football is understood to refer to whichever form of football is the most popular in the
regional context in which the word appears. Sports commonly called 'football' in certain places
include: association football (known as soccer in some countries); gridiron football (specifically American
football or Canadian football); Australian rules football; rugby football (either rugby league or rugby union);
and Gaelic football.[1][2] These different variations of football are known as football codes.
Various forms of football can be identified in history, often as popular peasant games. Contemporary codes of
football can be traced back to the codification of these games at English public schools during the nineteenth
century.[3][4] The expanse of the British Empire allowed these rules of football to spread to areas of British
influence outside of the directly controlled Empire.
 Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre
of which is a rectangular 22-yard-long pitch with a target called the wicket (a set of three
wooden stumps topped by two bails) at each end. Each phase of play is called an innings during which one
team bats, attempting to score as many runs as possible, whilst their opponents field. Depending on the type
of match, the teams have one or two innings apiece and, when the first innings ends, the teams swap roles for
the next innings. Except in matches which result in a draw, the winning team is the one that scores the most
runs, including any extras gained.
Before a match begins, the two team captains meet on the pitch for the toss (of a coin) to determine which
team will bat first. Two batsmen and eleven fielders then enter the field and play begins when a member of the
fielding team, known as the bowler, delivers (i.e., bowls) the ball from one end of the pitch towards the wicket
at the other end, which is guarded by one of the batsmen, known as the striker.
 F1 Racing
Formula One (also Formula 1 or F1 and officially the FIA Formula One World Championship) is the
highest class of single-seat auto racing that is sanctioned by the Fdration Internationale de
l'Automobile (FIA). The FIA Formula One World Championship has been the premier form of
racing since the inaugural season in 1950, although other Formula One races were regularly held
until 1983. The "formula", designated in the name, refers to a set of rules, to which all participants'
cars must conform.[2] The F1 season consists of a series of races, known as Grands Prix (from
French, meaning grand prizes), held worldwide on purpose-built F1 circuits and public roads.
The results of each race are evaluated using a points system to determine two annual World
Championships, one for drivers, one for constructors. The racing drivers are required to be holders
of valid Super Licences, the highest class of racing licence issued by the FIA.
 Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries
to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.[1] It has been a
part of the official program of the Summer Olympic Games since 1964.
The complete rules are extensive. But simply, play proceeds as follows: a player on one of the teams
begins a 'rally' by serving the ball (tossing or releasing it and then hitting it with a hand or arm),
from behind the back boundary line of the court, over the net, and into the receiving team's court.
The receiving team must not let the ball be grounded within their court. The team may touch the
ball up to 3 times but individual players may not touch the ball twice consecutively. Typically, the
first two touches are used to set up for an attack, an attempt to direct the ball back over the net in
such a way that the serving team is unable to prevent it from being grounded in their court.
 Hockey
he first recorded use of the word hockey is in the 1773 book Juvenile Sports and Pastimes, to Which Are Prefixed,
Memoirs of the Author: Including a New Mode of Infant Education by Richard Johnson (Pseud. Master Michel
Angelo), whose chapter XI was titled "New Improvements on the Game of Hockey".[2] The belief that hockey was
mentioned in a 1363 proclamation by King Edward III of England is based on modern translations of the
proclamation, which was originally in Latin and explicitly forbade the games "Pilam Manualem, Pedivam, &
Bacularem: & ad Canibucam & Gallorum Pugnam". The English historian and biographer John Strype did not
use the word "hockey" when he translated the proclamation in 1720.
The word hockey itself is of unknown origin. One supposition is that it is a derivative of hoquet, a Middle
French word for a shepherd's stave.[3] The curved, or "hooked" ends of the sticks used for hockey would indeed
have resembled these staves. Another supposition derives from the known use of cork bungs, (stoppers) in place
of wooden balls to play the game.
 Basketball
Basketball is a non-contact sport played on a rectangular court. While most often played as a team sport with
five players on each side, three-on-three, two-on-two, and one-on-one competitions are also common. The
objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter and 10 feet (3.048 m) high that is
mounted to a backboard at each end of the court. The game was invented in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith, who
would be the first basketball coach of the Kansas Jayhawks, one of the most successful programs in the game's
history.
A team can score a field goal by shooting the ball through the basket being defended by the opposition team
during regular play. A field goal scores three points for the shooting team if the player shoots from behind
the three-point line, and two points if shot from in front of the line. A team can also score via free throws,
which are worth one point, after the other team is assessed with certain fouls
 Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may
be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per
side) and "doubles" (with two players per side). Badminton is often played as a casual outdoor activity
in a yard or on a beach; formal games are played on a rectangular indoor court. Points are scored by
striking the shuttlecock with the racquet and landing it within the opposing side's half of the court.
Each side may only strike the shuttlecock once before it passes over the net. Play ends once the
shuttlecock has struck the floor or if a fault has been called by the umpire, service judge, or (in their
absence) the opposing side.[1]
 Lawn Tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams
of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow
rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object of the game is to
play the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. The player who is unable to
return the ball will not gain a point, while the opposite player will.
Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society and at all ages. The sport can be played by
anyone who can hold a racket, including wheelchair users. The modern game of tennis originated
in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as "lawn tennis".[1] It had close connections both to various
field ("lawn") games such as croquet and bowls as well as to the older racket sport of real tennis. During most of
the 19th century,
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