All Gujarat Pro Kho Kho League championship in Vadodara

72 players from 12 districts will take part in the league

Vadodara
will be hosting first All Gujarat Pro Kho Kho League championship for men
starting from 28 to 31st December at Shri Jummadada Vyayam Mandir.

Players from
12 district will take part in the tournament held in memory of 141st birth
anniversary of Professor Manikrao.

Kho Kho is an ancient and popular tag game invented in Maharashtra and played by teams of 12 nominated players out of fifteen. Nine of the players enter the field as opponent team and sit on their knees. Three players from defending team try to avoid being touched by the other team.

It is one of
the popular traditional games in India like Kabaddi. It is one of the oldest
outdoor Indian sport dating back to prehistoric era. Now it is played by school
children as competitive game in their sports tournaments.

The All
Gujarat Pro Kho Kho League championship in Vadodara will feature 72 players
from Vadodara, Chota Udepur, Surat, Tapi, Anand, Arvalli, Ahmedabad, Amreli,
Panchmahal and Surendranagar.

Total six
teams will be formed named after historical places in the city and all the
players will be equally divided in there to play in the league.

The
tournament will be played as per rules of the game with five matches per day.
The winner team will be awarded cash prize of 20,000 followed by runner up team
getting 15,000 after the tournament. Apart from that awards will be given to
best player, attacker, defender, all rounder and upcoming player in the Kho Kho
league.

The
tournament is organised by Shri Jummadada Vyayam Mandir under the aegis of
Gujarat State Kho Kho Association and Baroda District Kho Kho Association. The
aim is to bring back the golden history of the game which somehow is slowly
lost its place in the sports world.