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T20 cricket ‘most likely’ to be consisted of in 2028 Los Angeles Olympics: Report
Cricket might well be on its method to a return in the Olympics fold, with the T20 format “most likely” to be consisted of in the list of sports for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics Games.
According to a report in The Guardian, guys’s and ladies’s T20 cricket competitors will be qualified for winning medals at the Olympics.
Significantly, cricket’s very first and only look in the Olympics was through a one-off gold medal match in the 1900 Games in Paris.
The report included that the present proposition for cricket’s entry in the Olympics will be 5 groups in each competitors, with credentials based upon the rankings made by the International Cricket Council (ICC) and a choice on its addition for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics is anticipated to be taken at the end of the year.
Cricket has actually been among 9 shortlisted sports for 2028 Los Angeles Olympics Games together with baseball/softball, flag football, lacrosse, break dancing, karate, kickboxing, squash and motorsport.
The sport will be played in the males’s and females’s T20 format in the approaching Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.
Cricket’s addition in the Olympics will have an impact on the broadcast media rights sale. Based on the report, the existing Olympic broadcast rights in India are cost private Games and reported to be worth simply 15.6 million pounds (20 million dollars) for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
If the Indian cricket groups are guaranteed of involvement in the Olympics, the figure might be worth up to 150 million pounds for 2028 Los Angeles Olympics and later on for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics.
“It would likewise see the realisation of a long-lasting focus on the ICC, previous indifference to the Olympics having actually been changed by a desire to broaden the sport worldwide over the last few years and leading to a ladies’s T20 competition at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham,” stated the report.
It even more stated if the sport enters into the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics fold, then England would contend as Team Great Britain.
Cricket in the USA has actually simply begun to make significant inroads with the continuous inaugural season of the Major League Cricket (MLC) in Texas and North Carolina.