Hockey
The game in which Punjabis from both sides of the border won Olympic gold for India and for Pakistan.
Punjabi players were at the heart of India's Olympic hockey teams; Balbir Singh Sr. won gold in 1948, 1952 and 1956, and scored five goals in the 1952 final. Jalandhar became the world's great centre for making hockey sticks.
After 1947 Pakistan's teams, largely from the western Punjab, won Olympic gold in 1960, 1968 and 1984.
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 '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.
From Lahore's first Test players to Imran Khan's World Cup of 1992 and India against Pakistan at Mohali in 2011.