Why not both?
Many countries have two official national sports, often one being a summer sport and the other being a winter.
India has no official national sport according to the ministry of sports. However, as noted by Wikipedia, the de facto (unofficial) national sport is Field Hockey.
They play hockey. They don't play baseball. The famous sport for the Indians is hockey. They also play lot of cricket games, but still they play hockey a lot.
Cricket need not be the national game of India. Hockey is already the national game. The popularity of Hockey and its fans in the country cannot be brought down while considering Cricket. Cricket's momentum in the country will neither be affected as in the present situation.
Hockey and Cricket
no. it is a shame for the citizens of our nation to give more importance than our national game hockey.
Most popular sport is cricket by far. Hockey is the national sport but comes in second. Soccer is played in South India and West Bengal. Other sports where India has performed well is shooting. India's cricket team is amongst the best in the world.
Cricket in India is more popular than Hockey, because, Indian have always been better at cricket than their national sport, Hockey. Since India was once the best in the world at cricket, the Indians gave up their encouragement towards India for Hockey. Cricket is currently India's No. 1 sport! India was once the best at hockey, but, after years when cricket was discovered in India, Hockey was almost forgotten! But India is still known for Hockey and is great at it as well as cricket!
No, Sport in India includes cricket, chess, badminton, field hockey, lawn tennis, football, golf. Though field hockey is the national sport of India, cricket is the most popular sport in the country.
yes. but national sort is hockey
The national sport is field hockey, but the most popular sport is cricket
Hockey is the national game of India. But it has not become popular with Indians. When it becomes more popular and interesting it will be accepted over cricket.
its hockey.........although hockey is India's nation sport,cricket is more popular in India hockey in India is administered by Indian Hockey Federation