History
Several changes were made to the standard rules of kho-kho in UKK in order to make the game more exciting and presentable on television. [3] Sony Pictures Network India signed a 5-year deal to broadcast UKK, and will invest ₹200 crore (US$24 million) into the league over the 5 years. [4]
There are plans to launch a women's version of UKK in a few years' time. [5] [6] Future editions of UKK will expand to have eight to ten teams (potentially including a team from Northeast India), [7] [8] with venues in multiple cities to be used. [9] It was confirmed that for Season 3, some foreign players will participate. [10]
Before the start of the second season, UKK became the first Indian sports league to secure private equity-based funding, receiving it from a UK-based group. [11]
UKK uses a modified set of rules referred to by the International Kho Kho Federation as the "fast format", as opposed to the standard "test format". [12] The following modifications apply: [13] [14] [15]
- Only 7 players from the attacking (chasing) team are on the field. [16] [17] [18]
- The playing field is only 22 meters long and 16 meters wide. [a] [16] [17] [18]
- 2 points are scored per tag. [19]
- A 30-second break is taken between the dismissal of one batch and the entry of the next batch. [b] [20]
- If a batch of defenders can avoid being completely dismissed for at least 3 minutes (known as a "Dream Run"), they earn 1 point, and then an extra point for every 30 seconds survived afterwards. [21] [22]
- One attacking player (known as the wazir) may run in any direction when acting as the active attacker. [13] [14] [15]
- The attacking team can take a powerplay in each of their attacking turns during which they have two wazirs. Each powerplay lasts until all 3 defenders of the current batch are out. [16] [17] [18]
- Each team's turn to score/defend lasts 7 minutes, with the break time between turns also shortened. [13] [14] [15]
- Tiebreaker (named "Minimum Chase"): Each team gets one additional turn to score (with the powerplay being active), and the team that scores its first point the fastest wins. [20]
The game is split into two innings, each of which is split into two turns of seven minutes each. An interval of 3 minutes is taken after the end of the first inning, while a break of 2 minutes is taken after the end of the first and third turns respectively. [20]
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