1st Kho Kho World Cup:
- Wednesday, 15th January 2025
- Uganda Vs Netherlands
- Indira Gandhi Stadium, New Delhi – India
The Uganda women Kho Kho national team will face Netherlands in their third match at the inaugural World Cup at the Indira Gandhi Stadium in New Delhi, India.
The match will be played on the afternoon of Wednesday, 15th January 2025.
This follows impressive victories for the East African country over England and Australia with 45-30 and 95-20 scores respectively.
Against the Netherlands, Uganda will bank on star players Grace Ojil, Rose Nankumba and Jemima Zalwango.
Other players on the team include national athlete Emilly Nanziri, Cricketer Sharon Oloma, Olivia Nalubega, Jovita Lubango, Edinah Nattabi, Dorothy Nagawa, Shirat Mirembe, Olivia Tuhaise, Norah Nabasirye, Eunice Awori, Priscila Nambazira and Mellon Amvioko.
Head coach Ephraim Makubuya is expected to maintain the same tactics that inspired Uganda against England and Australia.
Uganda will wind down group C with a date against neighbor Kenya on Thursday, 16th January 2025.
Uganda’s team delegation in India has the Uganda Kho Kho association president Mustapha Nsubuga, head coach Ephraim Makubuya, led by Harriet Apolot, the 3rd vice pesident of the Uganda Secondary Schools Sports Association (USSSA).
This first historic Kho Kho world cup will attract a total of 24 countries.
Uganda was pooled in group C alongside fellow East Africans Kenya, Netherlands, England and Australia.
The other countries in contention include hosts India, Argentina, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brazil, Germany, Ghana, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka and the United States of America (USA).
Selected results:
- England 30-45 Uganda
- Uganda 95-20 Australia
- Kenya 40-51 England
Team Uganda delegation:
- Head of delegation: Harriet Apolot
- Kho Kho president in Uganda: Mustafa Nsubuga
- Head coach: Ephraim Makubuya
Players:
Sharon Oloma, Olivia Nalubega, Jovita Lubango, Edinah Nattabi, Emilly Nanziri, Dorothy Nagawa, Shirat Mirembe, Jemima Zalwango, Olivia Tuhaise, Norah Nabasirye, Grace Ojil, Eunice Awori, Priscila Nambazira, Rose Nankumba and Mellon Amvioko
About Kho Kho sport:
Kho kho is a traditional South Asian sport that date to ancient India.
It is the second-most popular traditional tag game in the Indian sub-continent 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 faces the opposite half of the field that their adjacent teammates are facing.
At any time, one player from the chasing team (the ‘active chaser’/’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 cannot change direction once they start running toward either pole.
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 the area behind 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.
The sport is widely played across South Asia and also has a presence in other regions with a significant South Asian diaspora, such as South Africa and England.
It is played most often by school children, and is also a competitive sport.
The first franchise league for the sport, Ultimate Kho Kho was unveiled in India in August 2022.
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