Maharashtra’s Kishore and Kishori team won the double crown in the 34th Kishor-Kishori National Kho Kho Championship held at the Albert Ekka Stadium in Pushpur. It is the ninth consecutive title for the youth group and the seventh title for the junior group. Satara’s Prasad Balip won the ‘Bharat’ award for the best player and Sangli’s Vedika Tamkhade won the ‘Il’ award.
Maharashtra faced Telangana boys final match was very close. The Maharashtra Kho Kho team trailed by 1 point at the interval and won the match 24-15. Bhim Singh Vasawe from Maharashtra team 2.00 m. V1 Gadi, Sri Dalvi 1.10, 0.50 m. And 1 gadi, Prasad Balip 1.00, 2.00 m. And 3 wickets, Sachin Thorat 1.10, 1.00m. And 1 gadi, Vinayak Bhange 1.20 m. Such a team performance.
In the girl’s final Maharashtra faced Karnataka, Maharashtra won easily by 18 points. Taking a 14-4 lead at the interval, Maharashtra won the match 26-8. From the Maharashtra team, Vedika Tamkhade defended for 5 minutes in the first period. She got Siddhi Bhosle 1.30m. 3.50 m and 5 wickets and provided valuable support. Shravani Tamkhadene not out 3.00m. Gauri Jadhav took 3 wickets while defending.
