It is a racket sport game, played with a yellow ball made of wool, on a court of fixed dimensions (12 by 24 metres) divided by a net.
The game was played as early as 1856 by the royal family in Tanjore, the capital of Thanjavur district in Tamil Nadu, India.
All-India tournaments are conducted regularly using floodlights in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka.
Previously, ball badminton was an attractive game for rural boys since it required a minimum of equipment.
Ball badminton eventually spread to Andhra Pradesh, and the first national championship was conducted at Hyderabad in 1956.
[2] Types of incumbent The ball is yellow wool, from 27 to 30 grams in weight and from 5 to 5.5 cm in diameter.
The net is made of fine cord to make a 2 cm square mesh along its length and is edged with red tape at the top.
The entire net is red, white and blue, 100 cm wide and 13.5 metres in length.
A hook is fixed at 1.5 metres height to each pole to easily tighten the net whenever necessary.
The centre and crease lines are to be marked so as to be visible, about 10 mm wide[3] Ball badminton is a team sport.
After the first 9th, 18th, and 27th point the teams change positions, with the server continuing to alternate between the right and left courts.
During the game the player must not leave the court except in the act of playing, if he has an accident, or with the referee's permission for activities such as changing a racket, tying a shoelace, or tightening a belt.
Choice of side and the right of first service is decided by a coin toss at the beginning of a match.
A ball is in play from the time a player attempts to serve until it touches the ground or until a "fault" or "let" (a re-serve) is called by the umpire.
The umpire is the sole judge on the fairness of a play, weather and lighting conditions.
Umpires serve for an entire match, unless a change is authorized by the tournament committee.
The umpire can overrule a line referee's decision, if he feels that an error has been committed.
If a match is suspended by the umpire for any reason (e.g. weather and light), it is resumed from the point at which it was stopped.
In a league tournament, if two (or more) teams have identical won/lost records their game scores are used to break the tie.