IOC approves Cricket For 2028 Los Angeles Olympics

Cricket will function as considered one of 5 new sports activities on the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, organisers introduced on Monday. A vote of the International Olympic Committee’s session in Mumbai accepted cricket, along with baseball/softball, flag soccer, squash and lacrosse. The IOC’s govt board final week accepted a proposal by LA organisers for Twenty20 cricket, the game’s shortest format, to be included together with the 4 different new occasions. But the ultimate alternative nonetheless needed to be voted on Monday on the IOC session in Mumbai, one of many international centres for cricket, as India hosts the lads’s 50-over Cricket World Cup.

Los Angeles chiefs have proposed a six-team occasion, in each males’s and girls’s T20 cricket.

The proposal from the Organising Committee of the Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 (@LA28) to incorporate 5 new sports activities within the programme has been accepted by the IOC Session.

Baseball/softball, cricket (T20), flag soccer, lacrosse (sixes) and squash will likely be within the programme at…

— IOC MEDIA (@iocmedia) October 16, 2023

The United States is about to area sides because the host nation, however no agency determination has been made on the variety of groups, or how they may qualify.

Cricket final featured on the 1900 Paris Olympics, when a workforce from Britain beat a facet representing France.

Adding cricket to the Olympic programme is an apparent transfer, financially talking.

It would faucet into the profitable South Asian market, attracting followers in nations resembling India and Pakistan.

The Indian Premier League, that includes cricket’s international stars, has helped India grow to be the unquestioned financial driving pressure of the game, due to legions of followers and profitable broadcasting offers in a nation the place the sport is nearly a faith.

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