Cricket is the most popular sport in India but their field hockey team gets the most publicity worldwide due to their eight Olympic gold medals. India beat Germany 8-1 in field hockey during 1936 Olympic championship game. Badminton, soccer, basketball, shooting, wrestling, boxing, tennis, squash, gymnastics and table tennis. There are many championships for professionals in these sports in India and throughout Asia. Many of India sports arose when they were under British control. Since India's independence, the country has hosted many sporting events including, the Asian Games, and Ministry of youth affairs and sports, and Cricket World Cup.
Indian National Field Hockey Team: Wikipedia
1996 Cricket World Cup
India hosted many cricket matches in the 1996 Cricket World Cup along with the countries of Pakistan and Sri Lanka. There were 17 matches played in 17 different cities in India. Using one of these matches as a setting of one of my stories could be really interesting. Sri Lanka won the tournament in the final match.
1996 Cricket World Cup Final
The final match of the 1996 world cup was played on March 17 in Pakistan. The underdog Sri Lanka beat Australia. In the post, it was really hard for me to understand how the scoring works but I know that Sri Lanka got off to a great start. Throughout the rest of the game, Australia caught up. A Sri Lankan player named Aravinda De Silva won the match on a game winning knock of 107 point. That must have been super exciting!
Aravinda De Silva
Aravinda De Silva was a professional cricket player from Sri Lanka. He was the captain of the Sri Lankan national team. He was also known as one of the best batters to ever come out of Sri Lanka and is the only cricket player to play in 3 World Cup finals. He started his professional cricket career in England and ended his career at home in Sri Lanka in 2003. After cricket, he served time on cricket administrative committees. He might be a great character to introduce in a story!
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