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Table tennis is a popular indoor recreation sport in India, which has caught on in states including West Bengal and Tamil Nadu. The Table Tennis Federation of India is the official governing body of the sport. India, which is ranked 30th in the world, has produced a single player ranked in the top 50, Sharath Kamal. [179]
Cricket is the most popular sport in India. It is played almost everywhere in the country. [4] The Board of Control for Cricket in India is the governing body of Indian cricket and conduct all domestic tournaments and select the players for India national cricket team and India women's national cricket team.
However, India is the epicentre of the development of the game on with a bigger platform and a wide outreach to contemporary audience. The Indian Lagori Premier League that was held in November 2017 had gathered great momentum across the nation which was organised by the Amateur Lagori Federation of India. [ 9 ]
In post-Independent India, the traditional sports' popularity has greatly declined with the further growth of Western sports and online gaming. [58] Kabaddi is the most popular traditional sport, with the highest viewership and most career opportunities; its growth was spurred on by the creation of the Pro Kabaddi League . [ 59 ]
As of 2023, 24 different players have been conferred with the highest civilian and sports honours of India, including the Padma awards and the Arjuna Award. Viswanathan Anand was the first sportsperson to receive the second-highest civilian award, Padma Vibhushan , in 2008 and the inaugural highest sports award, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (now ...
Goa Olympic Association was given hosting rights by the Indian Olympic Association after the closing ceremony held for the 2022 National Games of India at Surat on 13 October 2022. [ 4 ] Earlier Goa had been the host for the 36th edition [ citation needed ] , but due to a surge of COVID-19, Goa declared that it was unable to host the event.
The National Games of India consist of various disciplines in which athletes from the different states of India participate against each other. The country's first few Olympic Games, now renamed as National Games, were held in Lahore (now in Pakistan ), Delhi , Allahabad , Patiala , Madras , Calcutta and Bombay .
Norman Pritchard – India's first Olympic athletics medallist Nilima Ghose was among the first Indian female Olympians Milkha Singh – known as "The Flying Sikh". At the Olympic Games, the first Indian competitor was Norman Pritchard, an Anglo-Indian, who won silver medals in the 200 metres and 200 metres hurdles at the 1900 Summer Olympics. [8]