Sports
Cricket, football, basketball, volleyball, cycling, swimming, trekking, badminton and table tennis are the popular outdoor activities in the state. Traditional games like Kho kho, Gulli Danda, Pittu Garam/Sitoliya and Langdi are popular in the rural areas.
Aishbagh Stadium, Bhopal is the home ground for World Series Hockey team Bhopal Badshahs. The state has a football team that participates in the Santosh Trophy.
There are three International cricket stadiums in state – Nehru Stadium, Indore, Roop Singh Stadium (Gwalior) and Maharani Usharaje Trust Cricket Ground (Indore). Madhya Pradesh's best performances in Ranji Trophy was in 1998–99, when the Chandrakant Pandit-led team ended as the runner-up. Its predecessor, the Indore-based Holkar cricket team, won the Ranji Trophy four times. madhya pradesh game policy 1994.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)
“Come, my Celia, let us prove
While we may the sports of love;
Time will not be ours forever,
He at length our good will sever.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)