Cricket in the two Punjabs
From Lahore's first Test players to Imran Khan's World Cup of 1992 and India against Pakistan at Mohali in 2011.
Cricket came to the Punjab with British regiments and colleges. Lahore's Government College and Aitchison College produced players for India before 1947: Lala Amarnath made India's first Test century in 1933. After Partition, Lahore became the cradle of Pakistani cricket: Abdul Hafeez Kardar, Fazal Mahmood, Imran Khan and Wasim Akram all learned the game there, and Lahore's stadium, named for Gaddafi in 1974, became its home.
In 1992 Imran Khan's team, with Wasim Akram and the young Inzamam-ul-Haq of Multan, won the World Cup. In 2011 India and Pakistan met in the World Cup semi-final at Mohali, beside Chandigarh, with the Prime Ministers of both countries watching. In the villages of both Punjabs, boys still play with taped tennis balls on harvested fields.
More sport and games
The circle kabaddi of the Punjab's villages, now played in leagues from Jalandhar to Lahore, Toronto and Birmingham.
The mud-pit wrestling of the akharas, which produced the Great Gama and Dara Singh.
The game in which Punjabis from both sides of the border won Olympic gold for India and for Pakistan.
The 'rural Olympics' near Ludhiana: bullock-cart races, tractor stunts, horse dancing and tests of strength.
Riders at full gallop spear a small wooden peg out of the ground, to the dhol: the great horseback sport of Pakistani Punjab.