Sports, Games and Players

 

A game is an activity that is carried on when two or more people meet and play against each other for entertainment or amusement. A sport is an activity that involves the need for some physical effort and mental skills and is played for either recreation, self-enjoyment or competition.

Across the wall - Practice Questions PDF

Number of Players in Each Team

Game	Number of Players
Cricket	11
Football	11
Hockey	11
Basketball	05
Baseball	09
Rugby Football	15
Polo	04
Water Polo	07
Volleyball	06
Kabaddi	07
Lacrosse	12
Handball	07
Kho Kho	09
Sepak Takraw	03

Sports
Famous Badminton Players of India
Anup Sridhar	Prakash Padukone	Saina Nehwal
Aparna Popat	Pulella Gopichand	Dipankar Bhattacharya
Chetan Anand	Parupalli Kashyap	P. V. Sindhu
Famous Boxing Players of India
Mary Kom	Dingko Singh	Shiva Thapa
Ali Qamar
Famous Archery Players of India
Dola Banerjee	Limba Ram	Tarundeep Rai
Jayanta Talukdar
Famous Indian Athletes
Ashwini Nachappa	Soma Biswas	P.T.Usha
Jyotirmoyee Sikdar	Anju Bobby George	Shiny Abraham
KM Beenamol	Milkha Singh
Famous Cricket Players of India
Famous Legendary Cricket Players In India
Kiran More	Ajit Wadekar	Kapil Dev
Javagal Srinath	Ajay Jadeja	Madan Lal
G.R. Vishwanath	C.G. Borde	Mohammed Azharuddin
E.D. Solkar	Bishan Singh Bedi	Manoj Prabhakar
E.A.S. Prasanna	B.S. Chandrashekhar	Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi
Sunil Gavaskar	B.K. Venkatesh Prasad	Navjot Singh Sidhu
D. N. Sardesai	Dilip Vengsarkar	Syed Kirmani
C.P.S. Chauhan
Present Cricketers
Munaf Patel	Irfan Pathan	Sachin Tendulkar
Yuvraj Singh	Dinesh Kartik	Sourav Ganguly
Zaheer Khan	Ajit Agarkar	Shikhar Dhawan
Virender Sehwag	Anil Kumble	Virat Kohli
S. Srisanth	Harbhajan Singh	Ravindra Jadeja
Mahender Singh Dhoni	Rahul Dravid	Gautam Gambhir
Murali Kartik	RP Singh
Car Racing
Narain Karthikeyan	Armaan Ebrahim	Karun Chandhok
Squash
Joshna Chinappa	Ritwik Bhattacharya	Saurav Ghosal
Famous Table Tennis Players of India
Achanta Sharatha Kamal	Mouma Das	Poulomi Ghatak
Chetan Baboor
Swimmers
Bula Choudhury	Mihir Sen
Famous Indian Shooters
Vijay Kumar	Gagan Narang	Samresh Jung
Abhinav Bindra	Jaspal Rana	Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
Anjali Bhagwat	Manvjit Singh Sandhu
Famous Golf Players in India
Gaurav Ghei	Jyoti Randhawa	Arjun Atwal
Jeev Milkha SIngh	Shiv Kapur
Billiards and snooker
Geet Sethi	Pankaj Advani	Ashok shandilya
Michael Ferreira
Famous Hockey Players in India
Dilip Tirkey	Leslie Claudius	Dhanraj Pillay
Gagan Ajit Singh	Pargat Singh	Dhyan Chand
Famous Chess Players in India
Dibyendu Barua	Parimarjan Negi	Koneru Humpy
K Sasikiran	Sandipan Chanda	Viswanathan Anand
P Harikrishna
Famous Football Players in India
Baichung Bhutia	Dr Talimeran Ao	Inivalappil Mani Vijayan
Famous Lawn Tennis Players in India
Jaidip Mukerjea	Vijay Amritraj	Ramanathan Krishnan
Ramesh Krishnan	Leander Paes	Sania Mirza
Rohan Bopanna	Mahesh Bhupathi
Mountaineering
Tenzing Norgay
Famous Weightlifting Players
Karnam Malleshwari	N. Kunjarani Devi
Famous Wrestling Players
Dalip Singh Rana	Gulam	The Great Gama
Dara Singh	Palwinder Singh Cheema	Yogeshwar Dutt
Gobar Goha	Panne Lal Yadav	Narsingh Pancham Yadav
Sakshi Malik

Chapter 17

Across the Wall

Match the column:

Column A	Column B
Noor Khan	For outstanding achievement in national sports
Arjun award	Nagpada Basketball Association of Mumbai
Mumbai	Coach of Nagpada team
NBA	Victoria Terminus Station

Ans-

Column A	Column B
Noor Khan	Coach of Nagpada team
Arjun award	For outstanding achievement in national sports
Mumbai	Victoria Terminus Station
NBA	Nagpada Basketball Association of Mumbai

Fill in the blanks:

1-    Players are recognized by their ability to play rather than by their caste or economic status.

2-    To play as a team, it is important to understand each other’s strengths and weaknesses.

3-    Cooperation between members of a team is their strength.

4-    Players are recognised by their perseverance rather than at what level they are playing.

5-    Ranking and unhealthy competition needs to be avoided while playing games.

Answer these questions:

1-    Should the games for boys and girls be different? What do you think?

Ans- No, games for girls and boys should not be different. Girls should be allowed to participate all the games.

2-    What is the difference between playing for yourself and playing for the team?

Ans- While playing for oneself, a person is concerned with only his/her performance while in playing for team, each player’s performance is important. Spirit of cooperation is more important than competition in team play.

3-    While playing in a team would you like to play for yourself or for the team? Why?

Ans- While playing for team, I would like to play for the team because victory is team is more important than individual records.

4-    What would happen if girls are not allowed to play games, to study or do some other work of their choice?

Ans- If girls are not allowed to play games, to study or do some other work of their choice, their talents will not come out and it will suppress the development of society and country.

5-    Have you heard of any women players? Name them and the games they play.

Ans- I have heard about these women players of the country:

Name of Player	Game
Mitali Raj	Cricket
Sania Mirza	Tennis
Saina Nehwal	Badminton
PV Sindhu	Badminton
Mary Kom	Boxing
Geeta Phogat	Wrestler
Deepika Kumari	Archery
Karnam Malleswari	Weightlifter
Dipa Karmakar	Gymnast

6-    In which areas other than sports have you heard of women getting recognition?

Ans- Women are getting recognition in almost all areas today. Following are some examples other than sports:

A)   Sushma Swaraj – External Affairs Minister

B)   Nirmala Sitaraman- Defence Minister of India

C)   Lata Mangeshkar- Playback Singer and winner of several awards and honours including Bharat Ratna, Padma Bhushan, Padma Vibhushan etc.

D)   Kiran Bedi- Retired IPS officer and current Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry.

E)   Tessy Thomas ‘Missile Women of India’- India’s first women scientist to head a missile project.

F)   Durga Shakti Nagpal- IAS officer known for her aggressive anticorruption campaign

G)  Chitra Ramkrishna- Joint MD, National Stock Exchange

H)   Zia Modi- Managing Partner, AZB & Partners

I)     Kiran Mazumdar Shaw- Chairman & MD, Biocon

J)    Chanda Kochhar- MD, CEO, ICICI Bank

K)   Vinitha Narayanan- MD, IBM India

L)    Kirthiga Reddy- Head, Facebook India

M)  Neelam Dhawan- MD, Hewlett Packard India

N)   Arunima Sinha- World’s first female amputee mountain climber

O)  Puja Thakur- Wing Commander who led Guard of Honour to Obama.

P)   Chhavi Rajawat- First Women Sarpanch in India

7-    Do you know any girl or women who you want to be like when you grow up? (Think of names other than a film actor or a model)

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(Teacher should tell the inspirational stories of women from Q.6 and ask students to answer this question on their own)

8-    “Afsana has jumped over the wall. The gender wall that her mother had put up for her,” Think and write in your own words, what was this wall? What do you understand by ‘gender bias’?

Ans- Afsana’s mother works as domestic help in some houses. When Afsana told her about her plans of playing basketball, she got angry and said, ‘Girls do not play basketball’. This was the gender wall which she broke by convincing her mother with the help of her friends and the coach.

Gender bias means unequal treatment of discrimination between boys and girls.

9-    If you are the leader of a team, how will you prepare your team?

Ans- If I become the leader of a team, I will prepare a robust team which there will be-

(a) Unity

(b) Cooperation among players

(c) Understanding each other’s strengths and weaknesses

(d) No quarrels  

Project:

Do you know players of Indian football and kabaddi team? Write their names.

Ask children to work in pairs to collect the names of Indian football, Kabaddi, Hockey, basketball etc. teams (men and women both). Collect photographs from newspapers, magazines etc. wherever possible)