Dubai [UAE], April 16 (ANI): The Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) on Tuesday welcomed the announcement that the fairgrounds in Pomona, Southern California, will host cricket on the upcoming 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, as per the ICC official web site.
Pleasure round cricket’s Olympic comeback has been constructing because it was confirmed that the game would return to the Video games after a 128-year hole.
On April 9, the Government Board of the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed the participant quotas and variety of collaborating groups for cricket on the 2028 Olympics.
Each the lads’s and ladies’s T20 competitions will characteristic six groups every. A 90-player quota shall be allotted per gender, permitting every nation to subject a squad of as much as 15 gamers.
The complete match schedule shall be finalised nearer to the beginning of the Video games.
“We welcome the announcement of the venue for cricket at Los Angeles 2028 as it’s a vital step in direction of the preparation for our sport’s return to the Olympics,” ICC Chair Jay Shah mentioned, as quoted by the ICC official web site.
“Though cricket is a vastly common sport, it will likely be a implausible alternative to develop conventional boundaries when it options within the Olympics within the fast-paced, thrilling T20 format that ought to enchantment to new audiences. On behalf of the ICC, I wish to specific my gratitude to LA28 and the Worldwide Olympic Committee for his or her help and look ahead to collaborating with them and ICC Members in getting ready for LA28 and making cricket an enormous success there,” the 36-year-old added.
Cricket’s return to the Olympics was confirmed in October 2023, alongside the inclusion of 5 extra sports activities for the Los Angeles Video games – baseball/softball, flag soccer, lacrosse (sixes) and squash.
The T20 format has beforehand featured in multi-sport occasions, with each males’s and ladies’s competitions held on the Asian Video games in 2010, 2014 and 2023. The 2022 Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham featured a girls’s T20 match. (ANI)
