Kabaddi is a contact team sport played between two teams of seven players each The objective of the game is for a single player on offense referred to as a raider to run into the opposing teams half of a court tag out as many of their defenders as possible and return to their own half of the court all without being tackled by the defenders and in a single breath Points are scored tagged by the raider while the opposing team earns a point for stopping the raider Players are taken out of the game if they are tagged or tackled but are brought back in for each point scored by their team from a tag or tackle It is popular in the indian subcontinent and other surrounding asian countries Although accounts of kabaddi appear in the histories of ancient the game was popularised as a competitive sport in the 20th century It is the national sport of BangladeshIt is the state game of the indian States of Anthra Pradesh bihar haryana Karnataka kerala Maharashtra Odisha punjab tamilnadu Telenganaand uttarpradesh There are two major disciplines of kabaddi so called punkabi Kabaddi also referred to as circle style comprises traditional forms of the sport that are played on a circular field outdoors while the standard style played on a rectangular court indoors is the discipline played in major professional leagues and international competitions such as the Asian games The game is known by numerous names in different parts of South Asia such as kabaddi or chedugudu in Anthea Pradesh and Telengana kabaddi in Maharashtra Karnataka and kerala kabadi or ha du du in Bangladesh bhavatik in Maldives kauddi or kabaddi in the punjab region hu tu tu in Western India hu do do in Eastern India chadakudu in South India kapardi in nepal and kabadi or sadugudu in tamilnadu #kabaddi #bengalwarriors #guhan #mettupatti #trichy