South California city of Pomona will host the cricket competitors throughout the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, the ICC introduced right here on Tuesday (April 15, 2025).
The cricket occasion, which is able to function six groups every in males’s and girls’s classes, will probably be held on the Fairgrounds in Pomona with the game set to be an element of the Olympics after 128 years.
ICC chairman Jay Shah mentioned in a launch, “We welcome the announcement of the venue for cricket at Los Angeles 2028 as it is a significant step towards the preparation for our sport’s return to the Olympics.” “Although cricket is a hugely popular sport, it will be a fantastic opportunity to expand traditional boundaries when it features in the Olympics in the fast-paced, exciting T20 format that should appeal to new audiences.” Cricket, which made its solely look within the Olympics on the Paris Games in 1900, was included within the Los Angeles Olympics programme after IOC’s 141st Session at Mumbai in October 2023.
Cricket joined 5 new sports activities at LA28, together with baseball/softball, flag soccer, lacrosse (sixes) and squash.
The T20 format, recognised because the automobile for the expansion of the sport by the ICC, has additionally featured in different multi-sport occasions lately. 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 girls’s competitors.
Published – April 16, 2025 02:30 am IST
