Kho-Kho is India’s homegrown sport and we need to take it to international level: Rajat Sharma

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Kho-Kho is India’s homegrown sport and we need to take it to international level: Rajat Sharma


Image Source : KHO KHO FEDERATION India TV Chairman Rajat Sharma with the Maharashtra staff

India TV Chairman and Editor-in-Chief Rajat Sharma, right this moment (April 1), lauded India’s progress in Kho-Kho on the closing ceremony of 56th Senior National Kho-Kho Championship in New Delhi. He was one of many esteemed friends on the occasion alongside Rajeev Mehta (Asian Kho Kho Federation President), BJP’s Sudhanshu Mittal, JDU’s Okay.C. Tyagi and former IOA president Narender Batra. As many as 73 groups took half within the match that was performed from March 28 and Maharastra’s males’s and girls’s groups gained the respective competitions. 

Rajat Sharma, whereas talking on the occasion, additionally lauded Sudhanshu Mittal, the president of the Kho Kho Federation of India for his efforts so as to take Kho-Kho within the nation to the subsequent degree. “Kho-Kho is India’s homegrown sport and there is a need to take it forward to the international level. I would like to laud the president of the Kho-Kho Federation of India for his efforts. During his tenure, Kho-Kho in the country has reached a different level,” he stated.

He additionally believed that India will carry out nicely within the World Cup to be performed subsequent 12 months in England. “Kho-Kho is being played in 137 different countries today. The World Championship is set to be played next year in England and I am sure, India will definitely perform well in the tournament as the Kho-Kho in the country has improved a lot,” Rajat Sharma added additional. 

As for the ultimate matches performed on the day, Maharashtra Women’s staff defeated Airport Authority of India in an exhilarating match by 18-16. Maharashtra skipper Sampada Mourya was one of many prime gamers of the title conflict. Airport Authority of India additionally put up an awesome present however they agonisingly fell quick in the long run.

Even amongst males’s groups, Maharashtra gained the championship beating Railways within the ultimate. It was an exhilarating encounter as nicely with each groups ending at 32-32 at common time. The two groups locked horns but once more in a rematch and in that, Maharashtra clinched the thriller 52-50 to win the trophy.





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