Kabaddi is a sport in which many sports are mixed. In this, a mixture of sports like wrestling, rugby, etc. is seen. It was a contest between two parties. While this is a very powerful game on one hand, on the other hand, it is also a combination of many exercises. This game has evolved a lot over time. Today it is being played at district, state, national and international levels. Many youngsters have also started taking interest in Kabaddi due to the large scale played.
This game takes place between two parties. In this, one team is the aggressor and the other team is the protector. Players from the offensive team come one by one to the defender’s territory to defeat the defenders. The preservatives coming one after the other have to be caught by the preservatives.
Rules of Kabaddi
Kabaddi has many different rules because of the variety of ways it is played. Its basic rules are given below:
- It is a ‘highly contact sport’, in which the main objective of a player is to go to the court of his opponent, touch them and come back to his court successfully. The player going during this is called Kabaddi.
- Each match should be for 40 minutes. During this, the player ‘raids’ in the court of the opposing team. The player who raids is called a raider. The raid begins as soon as a player enters the court of his opponent’s team.
- The player of the opposing team handling the raider is called the defender. Opportunities for the defender to get out the raider are available according to the situation. The maximum time for any raid is 30 seconds. During the raid, the raider has to do a kabaddi rut, which is called chant.
- There are two ways a raider can earn points once a raider has entered the defender’s court. In this, the first is the bonus point and the second is the touchpoint.
Rules of International Kabaddi
- During the group stage, if a team beats its opponent by a margin of more than 7 points in the match, the winning team gets 5 league points. While the losing team gets zero league points.
- If the winning team’s margin of victory is 7 or less than 7 points, then the winning team gets 5 league points and the losing team gets 1 league point.
- In case of a tie, both the teams are given 3- 3 league points. After the tie of the group match, which team will go to the semi-finals is decided by a kind of ‘differential score’. For a team, this score is shown by the difference between the total points earned and the total allowable points. The team with the maximum ‘differential score’ advances to the semi-finals.
Field of Kabaddi Play
Kabaddi field is soft and made on earth. The ground is 12 and a half meters into 10 meters. But for the women and juniors will be 11 meters into 8 meters. The playground will be divided into two courts. In it, midlines and also have playfield called lobby.
Kabaddi has certain variations too, which are :
- The Standard Style: It is the international team version of the sport and has two teams with 7 members each and they occupy the opposite halves, which is 10 by 13 meters of the court in the case of men. While in the case of women, it is 8 by 12 meters.
- Circle Style: Here, the game is played for over 40 minutes with 7 players on both sides. A player who touches the opposition is declared as out and the team earns a point.
Like every other sport, Kabaddi ground too has a set of rules regarding the measurement of the Kabaddi ground.
The measures of the field for kabaddi games:
- The Play Field: This portion of the field should be 13 meters by 8 meters for Men and Junior Boys whereas this measurement should be 12 meters by 6 meters for Women and Junior Girls. This ground measurement for the sub-junior boys and girls needs to be 11 meters by 6 meters.
- Sitting Block: The sitting block is at a distance of 2 meters from the end line, which should be a rectangle of 1 meter by 8metersr for men and junior boys. These blocks should be 1 meter by 6 meters in the case of women, junior girls, sub-junior boys, and girls.
- Boundary Of The Ground: The lines of the ground which are known as AN, BC, CD, and DA should all be of 3cm to 5cm width and from the width of the field. And it is also absolutely necessary to have a space of 4 meters outside the boundary.
- Lobby: The playfield should have a strip on both sides of 1-meter width. If the lobbies are included in the playfield, then the boundaries should be extended up to an area of the four lines and should enclose the ground including the lobbies.
- Baulk Line: This line is parallel to the midline with a length of 11 meters.
- Bonus Line: This line is parallel to the bulk line and has an equal length, while the distance between the two is 1 meter.
- End Line: The end lines are the four boundary lines of the court and the width of these are 3 to 5 cm.
Like every other sport, Kabaddi too has certain measurement rules fixed for the playfield which needs to be thoroughly followed. The ground is fixed to all these measurements before a match is conducted, failing to which will be considered as misleading.
