Gilli-danda
（重定向自Gilli Danda）
![Two boys playing Gilli-danda on the ghats of the Ganga river in Varanasi.](/Images/godic/202501/15/Guli_danda_on_Ganges_Ghats_in_Varanasi4448.jpg")
![The boy on left is about to strike the gilli with the danda, while the one on right is fielding.](/Images/godic/202501/15/Gilli-danda4448.jpg")
Gilli-Danda is an amateur sport played in the rural areas and small towns all over Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Afghanistan and Pakistan as well as Cambodia, Turkey and Italy. The game is played with two sticks: a large one called a danda, which is used to hit a smaller one, the gilli.