Kho Kho

                                            Kho-Kho is a tag sport played by teams of twelve players who try to avoid being touched by member of the opposing team ,only 9 players of the team enter the field. It one of the most traditional tag games of south Asia ,the other being kabbadi .Apart from south Asia (mainly India and Pakistan ),is also played in South Africa. A Kho-Kho  playground or pitch is rectangular .It is 29 meters in length and 16 metres in width. there are two rectangles is 16 metre and the other side is 2.75 metres .In the middle of these two rectangles ,there are two wooden poles .The post is made of wooden poles which are smooth all over .The posts are fixed firmly in the free zone tangent to the post-line at a height between 120 to 125 cm.It is played in the rules and regulations.
                                                            The player who goes out of the rules it is known as foul. Each team consists of 12 players,but only nine players take the field. A match consists of two innings .An innings consists of chasing and running turns of 9 minutes each. Than, one team sits/knells in the middle of court ,in a row ,with adjacent members facing opposite directions. The chasers ends in the shortest time possible.The team that takes the shortest time to tag all the opponents in the field, wins.The equipments used in Kho Kho are posts ,strings,metallic measuring tape ,lime power ,wire nails ,two watches ,two type of rings having inners circumferences of 30 cm and 40 cm, score shorts (like a whistle,for instance),and some stationery to write results etc...