Dr Pradeep Tewari
The Tribune, Chandigarh, India.
Abstract
This research is focused on the use of various games in the leading vernacular and Englishnewspapers in India. These newspapers – all Chandigarh (India) editions – were contentanalyzed and the results revealed cricket visuals are dominating in the Indian newspapers,83.1% (N=182) cricket visuals were published by the selected newspapers out of total sportsvisuals, (N=219). Maximum space is also given to the cricket visuals by all the selectedpapers. Dainik Bhaskar newspaper had published maximum 91% (N=40) cricket visuals. TheTribune used maximum 75% cricket visuals with the story and The Times of India used maximum 34.4% cricket visuals with the story story on the front page. The Tribune usedmaximum sports visuals with the captions 80.6% and Punjab Kesri maximum 85.3% visualswithout the caption.