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Cricket played with a stick instead of a bat is exactly the structure of Gilli Danda. Previously Gilli Danda was as amateur sports played in the rural parts of India. The game’s origins in India date back to at least the Maurya Dynasty. It is believed to be the origin of Western games such as cricket, baseball and softball.
The rules are different everywhere and you can have fun making your own rules.
Gilli Danda is known by different names all over India :
1) Tipcat in English
2) Dandi – Biyo in Nepali
3) Alak – Doulak in Persian
4) Danguli in Bengali
5) Chinni – Dandu in Kannada
6) Kuttyum Kolum in Malayalam
7) Viti – Dandu in Marathi
8) Kitti – Pul in Tamil
9) Gooti – Billa in Telegu
10) Gulli Danda in Punjabi
Different scoring Techniques
As an amateur youth sport, gilli-danda has many variations. In some versions, the points a striker scores is dependent on the distance the gilli falls from the striking point. The distance is measured in terms of the length of the danda, or in some cases the length of the gilli. Scoring also depends on how many times the gilli was hit in the air in one strike. If it travels a certain distance with two mid-air strikes, the total point is doubled.