Kho Kho 2

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Kho Kho
HISTORY
The Asian Kho Kho Federation was established in the year 1987 during the 3rd
SAF Games, held at Kolkata, India. The member countries were India,
Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Maldives. The first Asian
championship was held at Kolkata in 1996 and the second championship
at Dhaka in Bangladesh. India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Japan, Thailand and
Bangladesh were participants of the championship. When the first game was
played, though many historians say that it is actually a modified form of `Run
Chase`. In the ancient era, a version of the Kho-Kho game was played on `raths`
or chariots in Maharashtra. This was known as Rathera. In ancient Kho-Kho
history, there were no rigid rules and regulations for playing the game. The
Kho-Kho rules were first framed in the early 1900s. A committee was formed at
Gymkhana Poona in 1914 for framing the Kho-Kho rules and the first ever book
of Kho-Kho rules was published from Gymkhana Baroda, in 1924.
INTRODUCTION:
The Kho-Kho game is an Indian sport commonly played in schools and colleges
around the country. When it comes to Kho-Kho history, every Indian knows that
the game was known to be played since the earliest of times. It is played on a
rectangular court, between two teams of twelve players each, of which 9 take
the field and 3 are reserves. Kho-Kho is a great test of the participants` physical
fitness, strength, speed and stamina and dodging ability. No one has exact
knowledge on Kho-Kho history or when the first game was played, though
many historians say that it is actually a modified form of `Run Chase`. In the
ancient era, a version of the Kho-Kho game was played on `raths` or chariots in
Maharashtra. This was known as Rathera. In ancient Kho-Kho history, there
were no rigid rules and regulations for playing the game. The Kho-Kho rules
were first framed in the early 1900's. A committee was formed at Gymkhana
Poona in 1914 for framing the Kho-Kho rules and the first ever book of KhoKho rules was published from Gymkhana Baroda, in 1924. According to the
Kho-Kho game rules, each of the participating teams consists of twelve players,
though only nine players take the field for a contest. After the toss, one team sits
in a row down the middle of the court, with alternate members facing opposite
directions. They are the chasers. The opposing team sends a player in the court
as a dodger. A chaser may only run in one direction and cannot cut across the
central line. If a chaser needs to catch a dodger who is on the other side of the
line, he/she needs to pass the chasing job to another team-mate. This is done by
touching the back of a sitter facing the other way and shouting Kho. The main
aim of the chasing team is to tag all dodgers of the opposing team in the shortest
time possible. This sport is managed by the Kho-Kho Federation of India.
RULES, FIELD DIMENSIONS AND EQUIPMENT

USED
Each team consists of 12 players, but only 9 players take the field. A match
consists of two innings with each inning consisting of chasing and running turns
of 9 minutes each. One team sits/kneels in the middle of the court, in a row,
with adjacent members facing opposite directions. The runners take to the field,
3 at a time and the team that takes the shortest time to tag/tap all the opponents
in the field, wins. There is a pole on each end and the runner can go between
two players who are sitting in zig zag manner, but the chaser is not allowed to
turn back while running and go between the players. But chaser can go to pole
and touch it and can go back or go to other side.
Schematic representation of a kho-kho pitch

A kho kho playground (or pitch) is rectangular.[4] It is 29 metres in length and 16
metres in width. There are two rectangles at the end. Length of the rectangle is
16 metres and the width is 2.75 metres. In the middle of these two rectangles,
there are two wooden poles. The central lane is 23.5 metres long and 30 cm
wide. There are eight cross lanes which lie across central lane, length of the
cross lanes, are 16 metres and width 30 cm. It makes the small rectangles and
each of it is 16 metres in length and 2.3 metres in breadth,(the two rectangles of
near by the wooden poles are 2.5 metres width) at right angles to the central
lane and divided equally into two parts of 7.85 metres each by central lane. At
the end of central lane, the free zone tangent to the post-line, two smooth
wooden posts are fixed, 120 cm height from the ground and their circumference
is not less than 30 cm and not more than 40 cm they have so many tricks in
running like double chain, single chain, dogging and ring game as well as in
chasing like dive, pole dive, fake kho etc.
The equipment used in kho kho are poles/post, strings, metallic measuring tape,
lime powder, wire nails, two watches, types of rings having inner circumference
of 30 cm and 40 cm, score shots (like a whistle, for instance), and stationery to
write results

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Schematic representation of a kho-kho pitch

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