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Kho-Kho is a traditional Indian sport, being one of the oldest outdoor sports dating back to Ancient India. It is the second most popular traditional tag game in the Indian Subcontinent after Kabaddi. Kho-Kho is played on a rectangular court with a central lane connecting two poles which are at either end of the court. During the game, nine players from the chasing team (attacking team) are on the field, with eight of them sitting (crouched) in the central lane, while three 'runners' from the defending team run around the court and try to avoid being touched. Each sitting player on the chasing team sits facing alternating directions from the central lane.

At any time, one player on the chasing team (the 'active chaser' or 'attacker') may run around the court to attempt to tag (touch) members of the defending team, with one point scored per tag, and each tagged defender required to leave the field, however the active chaser cannot cross the central lane to access the other half of the field, and also must only run in the direction (facing either pole) they took their first step in. The chasing team can get around these restrictions if the active chaser either switches roles with a sitting teammate (by touching them on the back while saying "Kho") who is facing the other half of the court and therefore has access to it, or runs to either pole and then switches direction/half. Each team has two turns to score and two turns to defend, with each turn lasting nine minutes. The team that scores the most points by the end of the game wins.

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The origin of Kho-Kho is very difficult to trace, but many historians believe that it is a modified form of 'Tag'/’catch', which in its simplest form involves chasing and touching a person. Kho-Kho is featured in the Ancient Indian Sanskrit epic Mahabharata.

The present appearance of the game was an adoption from the time of World War I in 1914. But at that time, there were neither any dimensions of the playground nor the poles which demarcate the central line. The time factor was also missing.

The Deccan Gymkhana club of Pune, Maharashtra so named and baptized by the great Indian leader Lokmanya Tilak & Bhai Narorkar drafted the first-ever rules and regulations which symbolized the metamorphosis of the game soon to follow. This initial stage marked the limitation of the playground and yet sadly lacked the poles demarking the central line in the field. Instead, less experienced players were posted squatting at the ends of the latter and chasers ran around them to return to the midfield.

But, even then the game caught the imagination of the experts in the field. The experts took no time to realize that the game demands the highest degree of quick and brisk movements, very high grade of nerve reflexes and tremendous stamina which are characteristic of a supreme athlete. The game requires all motor qualities alike speed, endurance, flexibility, agility, strength and neuromuscular coordination. As per merit, it is appreciated by press, media and spectators. The first Kho-Kho tournaments were organized in 1914, and the first national championship was held in 1959 at Vijayawada under the auspices of the Kho-Kho Federation of India (KKFI), which was formed in 1955.

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The present Kho-Kho rules are as per the Asian Kho - Kho Federation.

The rules are:-

· The game comprises two teams with 12 players each (as per the rules of the Asian Kho - Kho Federation 15 players each) in the team while only 9 players actually playing.

· The match comprises 4 turns consisting of two defence and two chase turns.

· Don't violate the above two rules.

· Every put-out defender brings one point to the chasing team.

· The high scoring team is declared as the winner.

· The game consists of defence as well as tracking skills.

· Defence: Single chain, double chain, ring game, dodging, line, advance, avoid and defence faking

· Chasing: running dives, pole dives, deceiving (judgement) Kho on the pole, delayed Kho, moving into cross lanes, rush Kho, sitting fake, 3rd rush, covering (skating), pole turn, skit(Kho), chain(Kho), etc.

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The present Kho Kho rules are

· Total area requirement 30m x 19m (inclusive of lobby from all sides measuring 1.5m wide.)

· Playing Area 27m x 16m for junior boys and girls whereas 23m × 14m for sub juniors inclusive of 1.5m x 16m of free zone behind both poles.

· Pole Distance 24m Central lane joining two poles measuring 24m length x 30 cm width.

· Cross lanes 8 nos. intersecting the central lane. Each lane measuring 16m x 35 m.

· Pole Size - Height (above ground level - 120 cm to 125 cm, Diameter 9–10 cm.)

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There is a Score Sheet in which one turn is of 9 min and 4 turns in total are played in the game (each team has 2 turns to score). Who has the highest point wins the game. After 2 turns the team which has the lowest points should chase (tagging the other team).

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Ultimate Kho-Kho (UKK) is an Indian Kho-Kho competition that had its first season take place in 2022. Many of the rules of Kho-Kho are changed in this league:

· Only 7 players from the chasing team are on the field.

· The playing field is only 22 meters long and 16 meters wide.

· 2 points are scored for a regular tag, and 3 points are scored if a tag is made while a chaser is either fully outstretched and diving ("Sky Dive") or touching a pole ("Pole Dive").

· The defending team scores two bonus points if any batch of 3 defenders can avoid being eliminated for two and a half minutes, and two additional points for every 30 seconds afterward.

· One chasing player (known as the "Wazir") may run in any direction when acting as the active chaser.

· The chasing team can take a powerplay in each of their chasing turns during which they have two Wazirs.  Each powerplay lasts until all 3 defenders of the current batch are out.

· Each team's turn to score/defend lasts 7 minutes.

· Tiebreaker (named "Minimum Chase"): Each team gets one additional turn to score, and the team that scores its first point the fastest wins.

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There are some simple specifications in the game

· A Kho-Kho playing field is rectangular. It is 27 by 16 metres (89 ft × 52 ft) in length

· In the middle of these two rectangles, there are two wooden poles. The central lane's dimensions are 24 m × 30 cm.

· There are eight cross lanes which lie across the central lane, whose dimensions are 16 m × 35 cm.

· It makes the small rectangles and each of them are 16 m × 2.3 m (the two rectangles of near by the wooden poles are 2.55 m wide), at right angles to the central lane and divided equally into two parts of 7.85 m (25.8 ft) each by the central lane.

· At the end of the central lane, the free zone tangent to the post-line, two smooth wooden posts are fixed, 120 cm to 125 cm high from the ground, and their circumference is 28.25 to 31.4 cm. 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 28.25 and 31.4 cm, score shots (like a whistle, for instance), and equipment to record the results.

However, for unofficial games, only lime powder (or any substitute) may be used as long as the cross lanes, centre lane and field boundaries are clearly distinguished. The strings, as well as the rings, are for the sole purpose of properly demarcating the same.

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There are usually two referees standing on the opposite sides of the rectangular field. Both carry a stopwatch and each of them is responsible for giving a decision on their opposite side of the field (because they can watch the game play in front of them more clearly than when it is on their same side). The referees decision will be the final for every outcome.

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A tournament of Season 1 of UKK(Ultimate Kho Kho)

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A tournament of Season 1 of UKK(Ultimate Kho Kho)

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Khelo India Youth Games 2020 | Kho Kho Under 21 Boys Final | Maharashtra vs Kerala