Kabaddi is a traditional team pursuit game played in India and requiring players to run and hold their breath for a long time. It is played on a rectangular field 13 meters by 10 meters which is divided into two halves by a line drawn across the middle. Each half, called the court, has a line parallel to the centre line at a distance of 3 meters known as a baulk line. Two teams of 12, with 7 players on the pitch take it in turns to send one player to raid the opposition which he does while holding his breath and chanting Kabaddi while trying to touch one of the opposition and then return to his own side of the baulk line, the touched opposition players must then leave the pitch. Research Kabaddi
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