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Cricket may finally return to the Olympics in Los Angeles 2028 after the ICC has expressed its strong desire to pitch for the sport's inclusion in the quadrennial Summer Games on the final day of its quarterly meetings last week.

ICC Chief Executive Dave Richardson said if all goes well cricket will be a part of the Los Angeles Olympics. Cricket has not been played at the Summer Games since it featured only once in Paris 1900.

In a bold decision to globalise cricket, the ICC on the final day of its five-day long meetings decided to give international status to all T20 matches played by its 104 members.

“I think this decision can only help us in our move or application to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the right to participate in the Olympics going forward,” Richardson told reporters here.

The deadline for submitting bids to the IOC for the inclusion of new sports at the 2024 Games is over and Richardson said they are hopeful of cricket's inclusion at Los Angeles 2028.

“It's going to take a bit of time. The 2024 Olympics will be in Paris and 2028 in Los Angeles. We have already missed the deadline to apply to IOC through the front door to get the right to participate (in 2024 Olympics),” he said.

“We can't go to Paris. But we have continued our talks with IOC and with LA in due course, hopefully by 2028 we will have cricket in the Olympics,” an optimistic Richardson said.

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This should be awesome if it it happens

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If something like this takes off and really globalises the sport I think the 5050 WC will be over and done.

(04-30-2018, 03:53 AM)mugatiya Wrote: [ -> ]This should be awesome if it it happens

ICC

If something like this takes off and really globalises the sport I think the 5050 WC will be over and done.

Lol you are so wrong.

The Football in no Olympics has nothing on FIFA

All lies.

Certainly sounds more hopeful this time

(04-30-2018, 04:02 AM)Randy Wrote: [ -> ]

(04-30-2018, 03:53 AM)mugatiya Wrote: [ -> ]This should be awesome if it it happens

ICC

If something like this takes off and really globalises the sport I think the 5050 WC will be over and done.

Lol you are so wrong.

The Football in no Olympics has nothing on FIFA

Come again mate?

(04-30-2018, 04:02 AM)Randy Wrote: [ -> ]

(04-30-2018, 03:53 AM)mugatiya Wrote: [ -> ]This should be awesome if it it happens

ICC

If something like this takes off and really globalises the sport I think the 5050 WC will be over and done.

Lol you are so wrong.

The Football in no Olympics has nothing on FIFA

He didn't mean cricket in Olympics > World Cup. If T20 goes big after this, World T20 might become the World Cup.

How many times did they initiate this.

We saw a T20 comp in 2010 Asian games and that was it.

Commonwealth is the best premise for Cricket, and the ICC is unable to materialize it. Commonwealth cricket comp is as good as a WT20 tbh.

What happens in the Olympic football comp? I don't think any top tier players play the game

(04-30-2018, 04:09 AM)Randy Wrote: [ -> ]How many times did they initiate this.

We saw a T20 comp in 2010 Asian games and that was it.

Commonwealth is the best premise for Cricket, and the ICC is unable to materialize it. Commonwealth cricket comp is as good as a WT20 tbh.

What happens in the Olympic football comp? I don't think any top tier players play the game

It was U-23 only for a while. Then three players over 23 were allowed in the squad. FIFA didn't want the competition at the Olympics to challenge the WC.