In which of the following years was Pro Kabaddi League established in India?

Correct — C. The Pro Kabaddi League was established in 2014, and its first season was played that July and August.

It took a traditional, equipment-free sport and rebuilt it as a city-franchise league with a broadcaster behind it, which is what carried kabaddi to prime-time television.

The founding year the key takes is option (c).

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  2016 — 2016 falls well after the launch. The league was already running under the same franchise format by then.
• (b)
  2015 — 2015 is the year of the second season, not the first. Anyone recalling early coverage rather than the launch lands one year late here.
• (d)
  2013 — 2013 is a year too early. Nothing had been played under the Pro Kabaddi banner before the following season.

Kabaddi needs no equipment and no ball, which is why it survived for generations as a village and school-ground game.

The Pro Kabaddi League, launched in 2014, repackaged it for television: city franchises, a fixed calendar, a mat instead of clay and a season short enough to hold an audience.

Exam questions on kabaddi now split along that line — the rules of the game on one side, and the commercial league built on top of it on the other. On the rules side, a kabaddi side fields seven players at a time.

Key facts

• The Pro Kabaddi League was established in 2014 and its first season was played in July and August that year.
• A kabaddi team fields seven players at a time.
• Kabaddi has been a medal sport at the Asian Games since the 1990 Beijing edition.

Common traps

• The second season fell inside the same news cycle, so 2015 feels right to anyone recalling coverage rather than the launch.
• Year of establishment and year of first match coincide here, but a paper may ask for either wording.

No directly related past PYQ was found.