Cricket in Olympics: ICC welcomes LA28 venue announcement – The Times of India

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has welcomed the announcement of Fairgrounds in Pomona, Southern California, because the venue for cricket on the Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 (LA28).
The cricket competitors at LA28 will characteristic six groups every in the lads’s and girls’s competitions, marking the game’s return to the Games after 128 years.

ICC Chair, Mr. Jay Shah, has welcomed the venue affirmation and expressed his eagerness to work in partnership with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to make sure cricket’s success on the Games.
ICC Chair, Jay Shah, acknowledged: “We welcome the announcement of the venue for cricket at Los Angeles 2028, as it is a significant step towards preparing for our sport’s return to the Olympics.
“Although cricket is a hugely popular sport, its inclusion in the Olympics, in the fast-paced, exciting T20 format, should appeal to new audiences and provide a fantastic opportunity to expand traditional boundaries.
“On behalf of the ICC, I want to express my gratitude to LA28 and the International Olympic Committee for their support, and I look forward to collaborating with them and ICC Members in preparing for LA28 and ensuring cricket’s resounding success there.”
Cricket, which made its solely earlier Olympic look on the Paris Games in 1900, was included in the Los Angeles Olympics following an IOC assembly in Mumbai in October 2023.
Cricket joins 5 different new sports activities at LA28 – baseball/softball, flag soccer, lacrosse (sixes), and squash.
The T20 format, acknowledged by the ICC as a automobile for the expansion of the sport, has additionally featured in different multi-sport occasions in latest years.
The Asian Games in 2010, 2014, and 2023 featured each males’s and girls’s T20 competitions, whereas the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games staged a ladies’s competitors.