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Volleyball Volleyball  is a game played by two teams, usually of six players on a side, in a rectangular court, divided into two equal halves across the length by a net tightly stretched between two poles fixed at either sides of the court, in which the players use their hands to bat a ball back and forth over a high net, trying to make the ball touch the court within the opponents’ court or force the other team to fail to volley the ball over the net after three touches.  It has an estimated global following of 900 million fans. Volleyball Match History 1895 : Volleyball, which was originally called Mintonette, was created by William G. Morgan in Holyoke, Massachusetts. 1900 : The first custom volleyball was made. 1st custom ball made 1947 : The Federation Internationale De Volleyball or FIVB was founded in Paris, France. 1964 : Volleyball is introduced in the Olympic games in Tokyo. Object of the Game The object of voll...

Field Hockey Field hockey , a.k.a.  hockey , is an outdoor game played by two opposing teams of 11 players each who use sticks curved at the striking end to hit a small, hard ball into their opponent’s goal. It is termed field hockey to distinguish it from ice hockey, a similar game played on ice.   Field Hockey Men It has an estimated global following of 2 billion fans and sees its primary sphere of influence in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The modern field hockey sport was first played in England in the 1800s. The game is mostly similar to soccer except that the players use sticks to drive the ball instead of feet. Hockey is widely played in India, Australia, and Pakistan, whose teams are formidable on the in the sport . History The origins of the game can be traced back to the earliest civilizations of the world( the Arabs, Greeks, Persians, and Romans each had their own versions, and traces of a stick game played by the Aztec ...

Golf Golf is a a club-and-ball game in which a ball is struck using various clubs in a prepared area, known as the "teeing ground" to  hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible,  across a second prepared area known as the "putting green"., which has a hole in it. A golfer hitting the ball It has an estimated global following of 450 Million people, and its primary influence is in Western Europe, East Asia, and North America. It is mainly played by using  different clubs to hit a ball, over a determined course, using the fewest possible amount of strokes. The contemporary game of golf was first played in Scotland from where it spread to the UK and to the rest of the world. Object of the Game The object of the game is  to get the ball from the tee (the starting point of any hole) to the green and ultimately into the hole in as few shots as possible. Both the physical hole marked by a flag into which the ...

Table Tennis Table tennis , sometimes known as "ping pong" is a miniaturized version of outdoor or lawn tennis. A dynamic indoor racquets sport played world wide, table tennis had an inauspicious beginning; the sport had its origins in England in the late 1800s as a parlor game known as "Whiff Waff," an activity played on dining room tables for recreation. The first table tennis balls were fashioned from champagne corks. In the late 1920s, the popularity of table tennis led to the formation of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). Various national associations were also founded, such as the United States Table Tennis Association (now USA Table Tennis), established in 1933. It enjoys a global sphere of influence and has an estimated 875 million followers worldwide. The sport began in the 19th Century in England as a miniature version of the sports lawn tennis. The sport became widely referred to as "Ping Pong". The modern sport involv...

Badminton Badminton is a popular racket sport played by using rackets and shuttlecocks where the cock is hit back and forth across a net. The sport can be played either individually or in a team of two on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. A Badminton match It is estimated that the sport has 220 million fans around the globe. Competitive badminton is always played indoors because shuttlecock flight is strongly affected by wind but they are also played outdoors as a casual recreational activity, often as a garden or beach game. History The game is believed to have been invented in India where it was called “poona”. Later, the British army officers stationed in India learned the game in 1870 where the duke of Beaufort introduced the sport in 1873 as Badminton in his country estate. Its origins can also be traced back to ancient Greece and China which have a close relation to old children's game battledore and shuttlecock. The Bath...

Rugby Rugby is a team sport played with an oval shaped ball which can be kicked, carried and passed from hand to hand. It is played by two teams of 15 players (in Rugby Union) or 13 players (in Rugby League). It is played on a rectangular field with H shaped goalpost at each end. A Rugby Match            It has an estimated following of 475 million people all over the globe. Its main influenced are the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth countries. It spread to British colonies like Australia and New Zealand from the United Kingdoms. History Old School Rugby            The origin of rugby can be traced back to the 18 th century in which during an English school football game at Rugby School where a student name William Webb Ellis is said to have ran with the ball while picking it up. Although there are doubts regarding the story, the Rugby World Cup is named after Webb Ellis. Objective The...

Cricket Cricket is a  sport of  bat-and-ball played between two teams of eleven players each on a large field, known as the ground, at which the centre has a 20 m (22 yd) pitch with a wicket (2 bails balanced on 3 stumps) at each end. The pitch is where the bowling and the batting takes place. There are different forms of cricket like: Test Cricket, One Day Cricket, T20 Cricket, Indoor Cricket, Blind Cricket and Backyard Cricket. An ODI cricket match It is the second most popular sport in the world after football (soccer) and the most popular sport in India. It is estimated to have over 2.5 billion followers and fans worldwide. History An olden day cricket match            The origins of cricket are uncertain but it is believed to have been originated in England during 13 th -15 th century. It is believed to have been invented in the countryside where stones would be bowled and hit with a tree branch and preferably with th...

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball game between two teams of nine players each on a diamond-shaped circuit of four bases. One team does the batting while the other fields. The pitcher will throw a small round ball while opponent team’s member will try to hit the ball and score runs. It is similar to cricket where it involves throwing the ball, hitting it and catching it. A baseball match             It doesn’t have much popularity on an international level as most of the major leagues are played on a national level. The United States is the country where baseball is most popular, hence the term “America’s Pastime”; after which is Japan. History A home run hit            Even though the exact origins of the game are unknow, historians believed that it started during 1700s and 1800s in the United States. Some believed that it is based on the English game of Rounders and Stoolballs. An o...