Mumbai: Hockey maybe India's national game and procurer of eight of the country's total haul of nine gold medals in the Olympic Games thus far, but it seems the stick and ball sport has taken a back seat in popularity charts as compared to the rustic rural game of kabaddi.

"The timing of our matches has been advanced to 5:50pm daily so that it does not clash with the start time of the broadcast of Pro Kabaddi League matches," informed a source connected with the Dabang Mumbai HIL franchise team yesterday.