Ball Badminton

Recently when i was browsing through the badminton forum i saw a thread where few guys were asking about ball badminton.

This is what i have played during my childhood till i was in high school and it's very interesting game which was very popular in rural Andhra during that time.

When i was a little kid (i was in elementary) i used to go to the high school which was next to our house and watch the high school kids and adults play badminton every day (My father used to play a lot). That's how i picked it up and i played every day during my school years.

Went to Inter school competitions and when i was a senior (10th grade in india) we won the zonal (Inter district) as well as inter zonal (District) level championship.

During that time every year there used to be an open invitational tournament conducted in our village during First & second week of January . Generally the finals will be scheduled on Sankranthi.

I don't think any one is playing this beautiful game in rural India any more.

I used to have few racquets ( Raja , Pitchaiah  and Narayana are the well known manufacturers of the ball badminton racquets during that time).

I will try to post the pictures when i go to India. I am sure i have those old racquets some where in our house.!!

This game is played with 5 players each side (two of them play Front one Center and couple of backs).And it's played best of three games.

Each Game has 29 points and from 25 the points are called with names.

25 - Sub Notice
26 - Notice
27 - Home Ball
28 - Game Ball
29 - Game Up.

And each side will have 5 Serves (one per each person). And you can only win points on your side's serve.