With inputs from Paul Beckett When asked why he climbed mountains, a famous mountaineer said, “Because they are there.” There’s a similarly straightforward answer if you ask why India’s Commonwealth Games bowlers hail from either Guwahati in Assam or Ranchi in Jharkhand: It’s where the greens are. Nine of the 12-player main team now competing in New Delhi are from Jharkhand and three are from Guwahati. Practice for Indian lawn bowlers sometimes has taken place on hockey fields and in swimming pool corridors. But the sport did feature at the National Games in 2007 in Guwahati,...