Bangladesh
Kabaddi Is also popular in India, where it originated and is the state game in several states, and in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Iran, China, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia and South Africa. It is a team game, where a member of one team goes into the other team's half and attempts to cross a line in the half, touch as many of the opponents as possible and return to their own half while chanting "kabaddi" in a single breath.