Kho-Kho is a highly combative, Indian traditional sport which requires varies physical and mental abilities to play. This game came into existence nearabout thousand years ago. Its unsure to determine the exact origin of this sport but according to experts some aspects of this game are rooted to “Mahabharata” where incident of CHAKRAVYU are closely related to certain tactics of Kho-Kho, like ring play is associated with fighting style of “Abhimanyu” to break the “CHAKRAVYU”. In ancient times, this game was used to play on chariots, called “RATHERA”. Afterwards, in 20^th century, foot Kho-Kho was firstly started by local sports club (deccan gymkhana; Pune) in 1914. From 1914 to continues several years this game was played without specific rules and regulations. In 1935, Akhil Maharashtra SHAREERIK SHIKSHAN Mandal set a “NEW CODE” of some specific rules and regulations for the game. In 1957 the All India Kho-Kho federation was established. The first all India Kho Kho championship were conducted at Vijay Wada in 1959-1960. Awards like EKLAVYA, Jhansi Lakshmi Bai award, Janaki award and VEER ABHIMANYU award were started given to the players. Afterwards, the central government of India included Kho-Kho as a regular course at national institute of sports, Patiala. With the effort of both Government and KKFI, the game was demonstrated in Asian games festival and the first Asian championship was held in Kolkata,1996. Now a days this game is being a medal sport in various national and international tournaments. At present more than 25 countries have their own national teams.

  The competitive sport played in a rectangular shape field which is 27m*16m( length*breadth) and equally divided by a 24m center lane from post₁ to post_2., 8 lanes crossing side to side from the central lane which makes sitting blocks for chasers. The distance between the post and first lane carries 2.55m and other remaining lanes carries 2.30m. the match contains two Innings with a mid-break of 6min. each Inning contain two turns with a break of 3min between them. The team is of 15 players (competition guidelines, KKFI 2022) in which 9 of them are playing set and others are substitute to cover-up the situations like injury and fatigue.

Skills:The necessity of game :-

  Both the attacking and defending team shows the highly competitive skills to make the opponent down. Attackers perform certain

To make Kho-Kho more combative and enjoyable to both players and spectators, Various changes has been made in The Ultimate Kho-Kho league as compared to the traditional Kho-Kho.These changing aspect includes the rules and regulation of the game, playfield dimensions, no. of players in both attacking and defending strategies, duration of the game and a few new terminologies like WAZIR, POWERPLAY etc. it’s just like a new version of Kho-Kho which attracts world-wide spectators toward India’s own traditional sport. It took time to be successful in any field or occupation but this franchise got success in their efforts very early. Like Kabbadi, football pro leagues this new league of kho-kho makes new identity on national and international level. In first season of this league only boy’s took participation, nearabout 143 players from all over the nation represent themselves in team of 6, under specific owners. Franchise thought to organizes Girls tournament in this league in upcoming seasons and also think about to increase in no. of teams. As compared to traditional kho-kho there’s a lot of differences in the game. These differences make this new league more interesting, aggressive or enjoyable as compared to kho-kho original game.