A Kho-Kho playground (or pitch) is rectangular. It is 27 meters in length and 16 meters in width. There are two rectangles at the end.
Specifications of kho-kho ground
One side of the rectangle is 16 meters and the other side is 1.50 meters. In the middle of these two rectangles, there are two wooden poles. The central lane is 24 m long and covers an area of 35 cm × 30 cm. There are eight cross lanes which lie across the small squares from pole to pole and right angles to the central lane is divided equally into two parts of 7.85 m each by the central lane. At the end of the central lane, two poles are fixed. These are 120 to 125 cm above the ground and their circumference is not less than 30 cm and not more than 40 cm. These poles are made of wood which are smooth all over. The poles are fixed firmly in the free zone tangent to the pole-line.
Rules
- The team consists of 12 players, but only 9 players take the field for a contest.
- A match consists of two innings. An inning consists of chasing and running turns of 9 minutes each.
- Then, one team sits in the middle of the court, in a row, with adjacent members facing opposite directions.
- The chasers can only run in one direction and cannot cut across the sitters unlike the dodgers who can run randomly and in between the sitters.
- They have to run round the entire row to reach the other side.
- The other option is to pass the chasing job to another sitter whose back is facing the chaser as the chaser is running.
- In this option, the chaser touches the sitter he wants, usually nearest to the target and shouts “kho” to signify the change of guard.
- The objective is to tag all the opponents in the shortest time possible.
- The team that takes the shortest time to tag maximum number of opponents in the field wins.
