Cricket will return to the Olympic fold on the LA 2028 Video games after 128 years. And the venue internet hosting the game in three years time would be the Fairgrounds in Pomona, South California, the organisers of the 2028 Video games introduced on Tuesday. Cricket will likely be performed within the T20 format, which 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 ladies’s T20 event.
“We welcome the announcement of the venue for cricket at Los Angeles 2028 as it’s a important step in direction of the preparation for our sport’s return to the Olympics,” ICC Chair Jay Shah stated. “Though cricket is a vastly common sport, will probably be a unbelievable alternative to broaden conventional boundaries when it options within the Olympics within the fast-paced, thrilling T20 format that ought to attraction to new audiences. On behalf of the ICC, I need to specific my gratitude to LA28 and the Worldwide Olympic Committee for his or her assist and stay up for collaborating with them and ICC Members in making ready for LA28 and making cricket an enormous success there.”
The LA Olympics will see each the lads’s and ladies’s T20 competitions function six groups every, with a 90-player quota allotted per gender, permitting every nation to discipline a squad of as much as 15 gamers. This was confirmed by the Government Board of the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) on April 9.
The complete event schedule for cricket at LA 2028 will likely be finalised nearer to the beginning of the Video games.
Cricket’s return to the Olympics fold after 128 years was confirmed in October 2023, alongside the inclusion of 5 further sports activities for the Los Angeles Video games: baseball/softball, flag soccer, lacrosse (sixes) and squash.
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