et grounds around city, including Railway Cricket Ground and Rajkumar College South Ground. Apart from cricket, other sports such as hockey, football, volleyball, badminton, tennis, table-tennis, chess, swimming and squash are rapidly growing popular in the city. There has been a significant increase in recent years in the number of private sports clubs, gymkhanas and gymnasiums. Kathiawar gymkhana, indoor stadium and swimming pools of Rajkot Municipal Corporation are major sports clubs in city. Recently, the Gujarat Hockey Team (Under 14) was assembled with all 16 players coming from Rajkot.A new modernized cricket ground is even under construction at the outskirts. Many new talents are arising due to sports facilities like cricketers Cheteshwar Pujara, Ravindra Jadeja.There are numerous swimming pools too.
Media
Newspapers
Morning newspapers available in the English language are The Times of India, Indian Express, Economic Times, Business Standard, while Gujarati language newspapers are Phulchhab, Jaihind, Jansatta, Sandesh, Gujarat Samachar, Divya Bhaskar, Sambhav, Kathiawad post. Rajkot also publishes evening newspapers including Akila, Sanj Samachar, Aaj Kal, Aas-Paas all of which have a healthy number of estimated readers per copy rate. A large number of magazines, periodicals and journals are regularly published and circulated across the city.
Radio
The city has five FM stations at Red FM, All India Radio (Akashvani), Gyan Vani, Big FM, Radio Mirchi of which Red FM is number one and More stations are available through satellite radio provider 1worldspace with 33 channels. All India Radio also broadcasts on 1071 kHz AM.
Satellite Television
Airtel digital TV,
