5 sports where India should be excelling, but isn't yet

2) Baseball

It’s about time baseball joined its cousin cricket in India

Predominantly an American favourite initially, Baseball is a bat-and-ball game that caters to fans across the globe, today.

With its unmistakable resemblance to cricket, the No.1 sport in India, Baseball could certainly take a side seat here. Having the same concept of hits, misses and runs at its core, for the players who’ve proven their exquisite hand-eye co-ordination skills with cricket already, baseball is the perfect alternative.

Moreover, the fact that it keeps showing up at the Olympics should be the ideal incentive for Indian sportspeople to pick up the bat and walk into a baseball diamond, thus making another realistic effort to end its long-running drought conditions in the Olympic medals’ quest.