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India Women won 6 consecutive matches in the Kho-Kho World Cup and won the title.
India Women’s Team has won the first World Cup of Kho-Kho. The final of the tournament was played on Sunday at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium, New Delhi. India defeated Nepal by a huge margin of 78-40 and captured the title.
Kho-Kho World Cup was played in New Delhi from 13 to 19 January. The Indian team remained unbeaten in the tournament, while Nepal had to face its first defeat in the final itself. Men’s team India has also reached the finals, they are also facing Nepal.
India started with attack The final of the Women’s Kho-Kho World Cup started at 6 pm on Sunday evening. Nepal won the toss and chose to defend. India showed unilateral dominance in the first innings and scored 34 points. Nepal attacked in the second innings and scored 24 points, India also got one point in this turn. After half time, India maintained the lead by a margin of 35-24.
India Women maintained the lead by 35-24 after 2 turns.
India’s dominance visible in all four innings In the third innings, India increased the lead even more. The team scored 38 points in this turn and made the score 73-24 in its favour. In the fourth and last innings, Nepal could score only 16 points, while India scored 5 points. The final ended with a scoreline of 78-40 and India Women’s team became the first World Cup champion.
remained unbeaten among 19 teams 19 teams participated in the women’s group. India Women was in Group A along with Iran, Malaysia and South Korea. The team defeated South Korea by a huge margin of 176-18, Iran by 100-16 and Malaysia by 100-20. The team topped the group stage and made it to the quarter-finals.
In the quarter-finals, India defeated Bangladesh by a margin of 109-16. In the semi-finals, it won the match against South Africa by 66-16. India Women’s dominance was visible in the final also and the team won the match by a margin of 78-40. Nepal was the only team in the entire tournament whose margin of defeat against India was less than 50 points.
India defeated South Africa in the semi-finals by a margin of 66-16.