Cricket is reportedly set to develop into an Olympic sport for the second time on the 2028 Games in Los Angeles.
According to The Times, the manager board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is about to deliberate on what new sports activities might be welcomed into the fold for the Los Angeles Games on Friday.
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The report claims males’s and ladies’s T20 cricket will make the minimize and develop into an Olympic sport for the primary time since its debut on the 1900 Paris Games.
IOC president Thomas Bach is reportedly a giant fan of bringing cricket into the Olympics given the game’s mass attraction in international locations comparable to India, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
The three nations aren’t precisely world-beaters in different Olympic sports activities but when cricket was included, it could little question entice much more eyeballs to the match in 2028.
However, the organisers of the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles would solely enable cricket if flag soccer, a non-contact model of American soccer, would even be added to the Games.
The variety of sports activities on the Olympics has seen a fast progress in current instances.
At the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, 38 sports activities had been performed as golf turned the latest inclusion.
But on the Tokyo Games, the quantity ballooned as much as 46 sports activities as 3×3 basketball, BMX, karate, rugby sevens, baseball, softball, skateboarding, browsing and velocity climbing had been all added.
The quantity will drop to 45 for the Paris Games with the culling of baseball/softball and karate whereas breakdancing has been included for the primary time.
T20 cricket has already loved considerably of a take a look at run on the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham with an eight-team girls’s match.
Australia took out the gold medal within the occasion with a nine-run victory over India, whereas New Zealand gained bronze after beating England by eight wickets.
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Source: www.news.com.au
