Melbourne, July 22 -- Member of the Legislative Assembly for Liverpool in Australia's New South Wales (NSW), Charishma Kaliyanda, highlighted the opening of a new Kho Kho court at Marsden Road Public School, a first in Australia, according to a release from KKFI.

As the local MP, Kaliyanda acknowledged and celebrated this development in the NSW Parliament, emphasising the sport's potential to expand at the grassroots level.

Thus, Kho-Kho, a sport with deep roots in India, was carving a space on the global stage in one of the most sporting nations of the world. Long before it appeared in stadiums outside South Asia, Kho-Kho was a fixture on school playgrounds, played on dusty fields with chalk lines, quick sprints, and sharp dodges.

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