WCK 2012: Team of BBC in Punjab to cover Kabaddi mania
Author(s): City Air NewsBathinda/Chandigarh, December 12, 2012: Riding on its popularity graph, the game of Kabaddi has broken the confinement of village fields and galloped into international arena. The tons of people in India and aboard...
Bathinda/Chandigarh, December 12, 2012: Riding on its popularity graph, the game of Kabaddi has broken the confinement of village fields and galloped into international arena. The tons of people in India and aboard glued to their TV sets to watch the live coverage of Kabaddi matches.
On the other hand massive crowd is thronged at the stadiums during 3rd World Cup Kabaddi matches.
Reports of reliable sources indicate that TRP of the live coverage of Kabaddi matches has surpassed the live coverage of Test Cricket in India. Needless to say that the local population of the countries, teams of which are participating in this World Cup, is also watching the matches of their favorite players on TV. Teams for all the six continents are part of this World Cup and the TV Channel in their respective countries is telecast special reports on Kabaddi matches besides a media crew of internationally renowned leading media house British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is in Punjab to cover the the Kabaddi mania.
The excitement and adventure of watching matches at night under flood light has also become a reason to raise the popularity graph of Kabaddi as it has worked for Cricket in the past. The game of Kabaddi is being taken up by the auditions as T-20 Cricket because of it satisfies the excitement of the auditions in limited duration of time as compared to the test cricket which hangs the excitement of the viewers for 5 days. These are the reasons which are responsible behind the increase of Kabaddi graph in media.