1st Kho Kho World Cup (Quarter final Results):
- Uganda 71-26 New Zealand
Uganda women Kho Kho national team has qualified to the semi-finals of the on-going Kho Kho World Cup in India.
Uganda was ruthless in the 71-26 victory over New Zealand during the quarter-finals on Friday, 17th January 2025 at the Indira Gandhi stadium in New Delhi city.
Grace Ojil was the most outstanding player of the game with Uganda’s Rose Nankumba as the best defender.
In the semi-finals, Uganda will play Nepal to determine who makes it to final. South Africa takes on hosts India in the other semi-final showdown.
Uganda won three of the four group B matches to qualify number one ahead of Kenya who won the East African derby.
This first historic Kho Kho world cup will attract a total of 24 countries.
Uganda was pooled in group B 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).
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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