England's captain for the Kabaddi World Cup, Someshwar Kalia

You may, or may not know that the Kabaddi World Cup is currently taking place in Ahmedabad with the live games being shown on Sky Sports 3 and Star Sports.

If you were born in the 1980s and watched Transworld Sport at the crack of dawn on a Saturday, you have probably come across Kabaddi before.

Kabaddi is an ancient game originating from different parts of India, but mostly, it is thought to be from Tamil Nadu in the South.

It's considered the national sport of Bangladesh and, to the casual observer, resembles a very complicated version of British Bulldog.

The games involves two teams of seven players. The pitch is a little smaller than those used in five-a-side, and there a two 20-minutes halves.

The two teams take turns in sending a 'raider' into the other half. This is where it gets complicated - to win a point, the raider must take a breath, run into the opposing half, tag one or more members of the opposite team, then return to their home half before inhaling again.

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Argentina's Mariano Pascual being lifted by India's players during the World Cup Kabaddi 2016 match between India and Argentina at the TransStadia in Ahmedabad

It's like playing British Bulldog, pretending to be under-water, but actually on dry land. The raider will chant 'kabaddi, kabaddi' with their exhaling breath to show the referee they have not inhaled.

The games involves two teams of seven players. The pitch is a little smaller than those used in five-a-side, and there a two 20-minutes halves

That's right. It's like playing British Bulldog, pretending to be under-water, and swapping roles half way through the game.

The raider will chant 'kabaddi, kabaddi' with their exhaling breath to show the referee they have not inhaled.

The raider will be declared 'out' and will not gain the point if they inhale before returning to their side, or returns without touching an opponent.

The tagged defender(s) will be 'out' if they do not succeed in catching the raider who tagged them.

The raider will be declared 'out' and will not gain the point if they inhale before returning to their side, or returns without touching an opponent

It is very much a contact sport and slamming the opposition raider to the ground can prevent them escaping before they need to inhale.

Each time a player is out, the opposing team earns a point.

A team scores a bonus of two points (called a "lona"), if the entire opposing team is declared out.

England vs Bangladesh: Each time a player is out, the opposing team earns a point

At the end of the game, the team with the most points wins.

Get it?

As ever England, have sent a delegation to represent the erstwhile hopes and dreams of an expectant nation.

Led by Someshwar Kalia they were unsurprisingly annihilated 69-18 today by the rampant Indian team, who are the stand-out favourites to win the competition for a third time.

Iran and Bangladesh are also quite good, although they have never won the competition in its modern form.

But perhaps the highlight of England's heroic performance came with the absolute trolling the Indian sporting and Bollywood elite gave to England after their thrashing at the hands of India.

Indian cricket legend (avg 29.32 against England) took to Twitter to boast: 'England loose in the World Cup again. Only the sport changes. This time it's Kabaddi'.

Ouch!

While Bollywood icon Big B claimed: 'India rules the British!!'.

So it looks like Britain's demise as a Kabaddi force has come to an end, almost two weeks after having never really begun.

After being knocked out of the Euros to Iceland, losing in the group stage of cricket and rugby World Cups, and losing in the final of the World T20, our brave Kabaddi boys had a really good crack at a sport they probably hadn't heard of before last week.

But, hey it's not all doom and gloom for the English. Britain came second in the Olympic Medal table and there's a Test series still to come against Virat Kohli and co starting on Wednesday November 9.

This isn't over yet, India. Not by a mile.