In Punjab circle style kabaddi a single raider crosses into the other half of a round field and tries to touch a defender and get back without being stopped, while the stopper tries to hold him. Village tournaments with prizes of tractors and motorbikes are part of every rural fair.
The game is played on both sides of the border, and Punjabis abroad run their own circuits in Canada, Britain and the United States.
More sport and games
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.
From Lahore's first Test players to Imran Khan's World Cup of 1992 and India against Pakistan at Mohali in 2011.