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Anything less than 20 overs would make a mockery of the Sport.
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Should Cricket be included as an Olympic sport?
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Like I said, that is my personal opinion.
There's a difference between changing Cricket rules around in informal games for kids/amateurs to just have a little fun in the streets and changing it around to play in the Olympics. Cricket, like a quite a few other sports, is a bit hard to boil down to simpler and shorter formats/times. The more overs you take away, the more essence cricket loses and the balance of Bat v. Ball loses significance.
My only concern is that with introducing shorter formats, you'll only make International Cricket lose quality rather than gain any. I'm not a huge supporter of T20 myself, but I reckon that format is perfectly sufficient if Cricket is to be introduced to the Olympics. Anything shorter, and you're just asking too much.
I don't like 'gatekeeping', as they say, but it's best to let Cricket be as it is. There are a few innovations that should be introduced to Cricket, but shortening formats isn't one of them, imo.
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See I hate these people who shoot down every other idea which can help bring in more fans. Whether you like it or not, the popularity of cricket has only waned over the years.
As someone who loves cricket, I want the game to have more fans around the world and Olympic, though not ideal, is a GOOD starting point especially for countries with good money.
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ICC to push for cricket’s inclusion in Olympics
The ICC has confirmed its intention to push for cricket’s inclusion in the Olympic Games going forward, starting preparations for a bid on behalf of the sport with the primary target being its addition to the Los Angeles 2028 itinerary.
A Working Group to lead the bid has been assembled by the ICC.
Thirty-million cricket fans live in the USA, making LA 2028 the ideal Games for cricket to make its return to Olympic competition. Cricket, till now, has made just one appearance in the Olympics, way back in 1900 in Paris when only two teams competed at the event – Great Britain and hosts France – meaning the sport's inclusion in 2028 would mark the end of a 128-year absence.
The sport will feature in the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games next year, which shapes as a perfect showcase for what the sport can bring to the Olympics, as well as being a momentous occasion on its own.
ICC Chair Greg Barclay said the addition of cricket to the Olympic Games would be beneficial to both the sport and the Games themselves.
Globalising the game at #Birmingham2022
“Firstly on behalf of everyone at the ICC, I would like to congratulate the IOC, Tokyo 2020, and the people of Japan for staging such an incredible Games in such difficult circumstances. It truly was fantastic to watch and captured the imagination of the world and we would love for cricket to be a part of future Games,” Barclay said.
“Our sport is united behind this bid, and we see the Olympics as a part of cricket’s long-term future. We have more than a billion fans globally and almost 90 percent of them want to see cricket at the Olympics.
Barclay added: “Clearly cricket has a strong and passionate fanbase, particularly in South Asia where 92% of our fans come from whilst there are also 30 million cricket fans in the USA. The opportunity for those fans to see their heroes competing for an Olympic medal is tantalising.”
“We believe cricket would be a great addition to the Olympic Games, but we know it won’t be easy to secure our inclusion as there are so many other great sports out there wanting to do the same. But we feel now is the time to put our best foot forward and show what a great partnership cricket and the Olympics are.”
The ICC Olympic Working Group will be chaired by England and Wales Cricket Board Chair Ian Watmore. He will be joined by ICC Independent Director Indra Nooyi, Chair of Zimbabwe Cricket Tavengwa Mukuhlani, ICC Associate Member Director and Vice President of the Asian Cricket Council Mahinda Vallipuram and Chair of USA Cricket Parag Marathe.
Marathe believes the time is now for cricket to make its long-awaited return to the Olympics, confident the sport's inclusion at the showpiece event would accelerate the growth of the game in the USA.
“USA Cricket is thrilled to be able to support cricket’s bid for inclusion in the Olympics, the timing of which aligns perfectly with our continuing plans to develop the sport in the USA," he said.
"With so many passionate cricket fans and players already in the USA, and a huge global audience and following for the sport around the world, we believe that cricket’s inclusion will add great value to the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games and help us to achieve our own vision for establishing cricket as a mainstream sport in this country.”
https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/2211253/
The ICC has confirmed its intention to push for cricket’s inclusion in the Olympic Games going forward, starting preparations for a bid on behalf of the sport with the primary target being its addition to the Los Angeles 2028 itinerary.
A Working Group to lead the bid has been assembled by the ICC.
Thirty-million cricket fans live in the USA, making LA 2028 the ideal Games for cricket to make its return to Olympic competition. Cricket, till now, has made just one appearance in the Olympics, way back in 1900 in Paris when only two teams competed at the event – Great Britain and hosts France – meaning the sport's inclusion in 2028 would mark the end of a 128-year absence.
The sport will feature in the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games next year, which shapes as a perfect showcase for what the sport can bring to the Olympics, as well as being a momentous occasion on its own.
ICC Chair Greg Barclay said the addition of cricket to the Olympic Games would be beneficial to both the sport and the Games themselves.
Globalising the game at #Birmingham2022
“Firstly on behalf of everyone at the ICC, I would like to congratulate the IOC, Tokyo 2020, and the people of Japan for staging such an incredible Games in such difficult circumstances. It truly was fantastic to watch and captured the imagination of the world and we would love for cricket to be a part of future Games,” Barclay said.
“Our sport is united behind this bid, and we see the Olympics as a part of cricket’s long-term future. We have more than a billion fans globally and almost 90 percent of them want to see cricket at the Olympics.
Barclay added: “Clearly cricket has a strong and passionate fanbase, particularly in South Asia where 92% of our fans come from whilst there are also 30 million cricket fans in the USA. The opportunity for those fans to see their heroes competing for an Olympic medal is tantalising.”
“We believe cricket would be a great addition to the Olympic Games, but we know it won’t be easy to secure our inclusion as there are so many other great sports out there wanting to do the same. But we feel now is the time to put our best foot forward and show what a great partnership cricket and the Olympics are.”
The ICC Olympic Working Group will be chaired by England and Wales Cricket Board Chair Ian Watmore. He will be joined by ICC Independent Director Indra Nooyi, Chair of Zimbabwe Cricket Tavengwa Mukuhlani, ICC Associate Member Director and Vice President of the Asian Cricket Council Mahinda Vallipuram and Chair of USA Cricket Parag Marathe.
Marathe believes the time is now for cricket to make its long-awaited return to the Olympics, confident the sport's inclusion at the showpiece event would accelerate the growth of the game in the USA.
“USA Cricket is thrilled to be able to support cricket’s bid for inclusion in the Olympics, the timing of which aligns perfectly with our continuing plans to develop the sport in the USA," he said.
"With so many passionate cricket fans and players already in the USA, and a huge global audience and following for the sport around the world, we believe that cricket’s inclusion will add great value to the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games and help us to achieve our own vision for establishing cricket as a mainstream sport in this country.”
https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/2211253/
USA Cricket today hailed the news that the ICC has confirmed its intent to bid for cricket’s historic inclusion into the Olympic Games from Los Angeles 2028 onward.
USA Cricket’s Foundational Plan identifies a long-term vision for cricket to be established as a leading sport in the United States, and cricket’s potential entry into the Olympics, especially for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games, would act as an enormous catalyst for the growth and development of the sport across America.
Alongside the other efforts that are being made to positively transform the domestic cricketing landscape in this country, cricket’s potential inclusion in the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games is an incredible opportunity. Through the sport’s extensive global and domestic reach, USA Cricket believes that cricket can complement the fantastic program of existing Olympic sports and offer a relevant and exciting addition to the Los Angeles Games.
With the inclusion of USA Cricket Chair, Paraag Marathe, on the ICC’s Working Group, USA Cricket and the entire US cricket community looks forward to supporting the ICC’s efforts to make cricketing history on American soil in seven years’ time.
USA Cricket’s Foundational Plan identifies a long-term vision for cricket to be established as a leading sport in the United States, and cricket’s potential entry into the Olympics, especially for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games, would act as an enormous catalyst for the growth and development of the sport across America.
Alongside the other efforts that are being made to positively transform the domestic cricketing landscape in this country, cricket’s potential inclusion in the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games is an incredible opportunity. Through the sport’s extensive global and domestic reach, USA Cricket believes that cricket can complement the fantastic program of existing Olympic sports and offer a relevant and exciting addition to the Los Angeles Games.
With the inclusion of USA Cricket Chair, Paraag Marathe, on the ICC’s Working Group, USA Cricket and the entire US cricket community looks forward to supporting the ICC’s efforts to make cricketing history on American soil in seven years’ time.
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Yes it should because the world needs to see how cricket can function without BCCI dominance.
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Yes it should be but it should be in the 20 over format none of that T10/Hundreds garbage, the olympics are prestigious and we shouldn't give it to the crappier formats. Baseball is also in the olympics and a baseball game is as long as a T20 game, so time isn't an issue.
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For all the talk of expanding cricket's popularity, it's a travesty that cricket is not part of the Olympics. How is this even possible? Some way must be found to accommodate the game to the Olympics' parameters. The game should be thrown wide open to all countries at the Olympics, and the elite countries should not send their top-tier cricketers in order to level the playing field. The ICC is a joke when it comes to growing cricket's audience because the sport seems to be shrinking rather than growing in recent years. How sad that a pathetic pseudo sport like baseball is part of the Olympics but not the real one, cricket!
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The USA is likely to host the T20 World Cup in 2024, which could serve as a launch pad in the ICC's bid for cricket's inclusion in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. The ICC is expected to award a joint bid by USA Cricket and Cricket West Indies to host the 2024 T20 showpiece. According to a report in Sydney Morning Herald, a "decision on venues for ICC events in the next cycle was imminent, and that an outward, global focus would mean they were more widely distributed than in the recent past.
"If all goes as per the plans, it would be the first global tournament not hosted by either India, England or Australia since the 2014 T20 World Cup in Bangladesh.
The ICC has been for a long time looking to give emerging countries the hosting rights for the mega events.
The 2024 T20 World Cup is expected to have 20 teams and 55 matches as compared to the 2021 and 2022 editions which have seen 16 teams playing 45 matches.
Between 2024 and 2031, the ICC is set to host several global tournaments, which will begin with the 2024 T20 World Cup.
"In addition to marking a significant move away from those years, the choice of the US to help host the 2024 tournament would also serve as a launch pad for cricket's long-awaited inclusion in the Olympic Games, starting with LA in 2028 and following up with Brisbane in 2032," said the report in the Australian daily.
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"If all goes as per the plans, it would be the first global tournament not hosted by either India, England or Australia since the 2014 T20 World Cup in Bangladesh.
The ICC has been for a long time looking to give emerging countries the hosting rights for the mega events.
The 2024 T20 World Cup is expected to have 20 teams and 55 matches as compared to the 2021 and 2022 editions which have seen 16 teams playing 45 matches.
Between 2024 and 2031, the ICC is set to host several global tournaments, which will begin with the 2024 T20 World Cup.
"In addition to marking a significant move away from those years, the choice of the US to help host the 2024 tournament would also serve as a launch pad for cricket's long-awaited inclusion in the Olympic Games, starting with LA in 2028 and following up with Brisbane in 2032," said the report in the Australian daily.
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Even T20 is far too long for Olympics. Let's just accept that cricket is not like other team sports, it's way longer and can only be enjoyed the way it is. No other short format other than T20 is taken seriously across the world, so T10/100 is worthless as a competitive format in the Olympics
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If cricket ever becomes olympic sport regularly we will have China emerge as one of the cricketing power in future
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China is absolutely terrible in team sports. Soccer is pretty popular in China and they're ranked 75th in Fifa
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T20 is too long for the Olympics. Even hockey games are only 60 minutes long, most events get over in a matter of minutes, sometimes seconds.
Even T10 will be too long since there will be so many games, maybe something like Hong Kong Super Sixes.
Even T10 will be too long since there will be so many games, maybe something like Hong Kong Super Sixes.
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Geneva: Cricket’s bid for an Olympic spot received a jolt when it was excluded from the provisional list of 28 sports for the 2028 Los Angeles Games, along with three other sports, by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Cricket, which has featured at the Olympics just once in 1900 Paris Games, weightlifting and modern pentathlon have failed to make the cut for the LA Games on Thursday.
The IOC has given boxing and weightlifting federations 18 months time to set their house in order to be considered for the LA Games as these sport was plagued by issues of corruption and doping. In modern pentathlon’s case, the Olympic body has asked it to remove equestrian jumping from the event.
Athletics, archery, badminton, basketball, tennis and wrestling are some of the sports that have been provisionally added to the Los Angeles Olympics programme. In 1990 Paris Games, cricket made its maiden and only appearance where it was played between just two countries. Besides Olympics, the other multi-sport in which cricket featured was only in the 1998 Commonwealth Games.
Cricket, however, will make its return to the Commonwealth Games in next year’s Birmingham CWG in the form of a women’s Twenty20 event. In August this year, the ICC had started preparations for cricket’s inclusion in the Olympics.
But the IOC takes into consideration a sport’s popularity, cost, complexity, uniqueness and relevance towards young people as factors before including them in the Olympic programme. The ICC, cricket’s governing body, currently has 12 full members and 94 associate members.
https://www.india.com/sports/2028-s...luded-from-provisional-list-of-games-5133768/
Cricket, which has featured at the Olympics just once in 1900 Paris Games, weightlifting and modern pentathlon have failed to make the cut for the LA Games on Thursday.
The IOC has given boxing and weightlifting federations 18 months time to set their house in order to be considered for the LA Games as these sport was plagued by issues of corruption and doping. In modern pentathlon’s case, the Olympic body has asked it to remove equestrian jumping from the event.
Athletics, archery, badminton, basketball, tennis and wrestling are some of the sports that have been provisionally added to the Los Angeles Olympics programme. In 1990 Paris Games, cricket made its maiden and only appearance where it was played between just two countries. Besides Olympics, the other multi-sport in which cricket featured was only in the 1998 Commonwealth Games.
Cricket, however, will make its return to the Commonwealth Games in next year’s Birmingham CWG in the form of a women’s Twenty20 event. In August this year, the ICC had started preparations for cricket’s inclusion in the Olympics.
But the IOC takes into consideration a sport’s popularity, cost, complexity, uniqueness and relevance towards young people as factors before including them in the Olympic programme. The ICC, cricket’s governing body, currently has 12 full members and 94 associate members.
https://www.india.com/sports/2028-s...luded-from-provisional-list-of-games-5133768/
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I am open to the idea and having a discussion about it.
Not sure that cricket would suit the Olympics though.
Not sure that cricket would suit the Olympics though.
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So cricket wont be in 2028 olympics?
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Yes as stated above.
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NEW DELHI, Aug 4 (Reuters) - The International Cricket Council (ICC) will make a presentation to the Los Angeles Olympics organisers later this month in its bid for the sport to return to the Games after a gap of 128 years, sources told Reuters.
Cricket has been shortlisted for potential inclusion at the 2028 Los Angeles Games along with baseball-softball, flag football, lacrosse, breakdancing, karate, kickboxing, squash and motorsport.
Teams would play Twenty20 cricket -- the sport’s shortest international format which has inspired the lucrative Indian Premier League and similar franchise-based competitions in other countries.
The host city can include any sport but needs approval of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
The governing body is likely to take a final decision at the IOC session in Mumbai next year, said one of the sources which had direct knowledge of the matter.
Twenty eight sports feature in the initial programme announced by the 2028 Games organiser in December.
Cricket has not been played at the Olympics since its maiden appearance in the 1900 Games at Paris, where Britain beat a team of mostly English expatriates representing France by 158 runs to win gold.
Despite initial obstruction from the powerful English and Indian cricket boards, the game has started to gain entry to multi-sports gatherings around the world.
Women’s Twenty20 is being played at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham and cricket will also part of the delayed Asian Games in Hangzhou next year.
It will also feature in the Africa Games in Ghana and the Southeast Asian Games in Cambodia next year.
Considering cricket’s low profile in the United States, many believe it has better chances of making the cut for the 2032 Olympics in Australia.
The ICC, however, is determined to grow the game in the United States - which is cricket’s third largest broadcast market after India and Britain due to the Indian and Pakistani diaspora. It believes the 2028 Olympics would make the perfect showcase.
Olympic sports remain in cricket’s shadow in the sub-continent, so the ICC has based its bid around cricket’s unrivalled popularity among the region’s billion-plus fans.
Women’s Twenty20 has already proven a big hit on its Commonwealth Games debut with a record 150,000-plus tickets sold.
“Being in multi-sport games, whether it is the Commonwealth Games or the Asian Games or the African Games, putting cricket into these multi-sport events is good for the growth of our game,” ICC chief executive Geoff Allardice told reporters last week.
Allardice was merely echoing the sentiments shared by several former players.
“Great to see T20 cricket in Commonwealth Games. Next destination - Olympics,” tweeted former India player Mohammad Kaif.
Cricket has been shortlisted for potential inclusion at the 2028 Los Angeles Games along with baseball-softball, flag football, lacrosse, breakdancing, karate, kickboxing, squash and motorsport.
Teams would play Twenty20 cricket -- the sport’s shortest international format which has inspired the lucrative Indian Premier League and similar franchise-based competitions in other countries.
The host city can include any sport but needs approval of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
The governing body is likely to take a final decision at the IOC session in Mumbai next year, said one of the sources which had direct knowledge of the matter.
Twenty eight sports feature in the initial programme announced by the 2028 Games organiser in December.
Cricket has not been played at the Olympics since its maiden appearance in the 1900 Games at Paris, where Britain beat a team of mostly English expatriates representing France by 158 runs to win gold.
Despite initial obstruction from the powerful English and Indian cricket boards, the game has started to gain entry to multi-sports gatherings around the world.
Women’s Twenty20 is being played at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham and cricket will also part of the delayed Asian Games in Hangzhou next year.
It will also feature in the Africa Games in Ghana and the Southeast Asian Games in Cambodia next year.
Considering cricket’s low profile in the United States, many believe it has better chances of making the cut for the 2032 Olympics in Australia.
The ICC, however, is determined to grow the game in the United States - which is cricket’s third largest broadcast market after India and Britain due to the Indian and Pakistani diaspora. It believes the 2028 Olympics would make the perfect showcase.
Olympic sports remain in cricket’s shadow in the sub-continent, so the ICC has based its bid around cricket’s unrivalled popularity among the region’s billion-plus fans.
Women’s Twenty20 has already proven a big hit on its Commonwealth Games debut with a record 150,000-plus tickets sold.
“Being in multi-sport games, whether it is the Commonwealth Games or the Asian Games or the African Games, putting cricket into these multi-sport events is good for the growth of our game,” ICC chief executive Geoff Allardice told reporters last week.
Allardice was merely echoing the sentiments shared by several former players.
“Great to see T20 cricket in Commonwealth Games. Next destination - Olympics,” tweeted former India player Mohammad Kaif.
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Wasim Khan in an interview:
“We do stand a chance and ICC is leading this process. There are 3-4 other sports we are competing against for inclusion in 2028 Olympic Games"
“South Asia is a big market in terms of viewership and commerciality of the sport so it will be hugely beneficial for Olympics organising committee. So far they have expressed positive intentions and they seem keen to make cricket part of the Olympic Games"
“We do stand a chance and ICC is leading this process. There are 3-4 other sports we are competing against for inclusion in 2028 Olympic Games"
“South Asia is a big market in terms of viewership and commerciality of the sport so it will be hugely beneficial for Olympics organising committee. So far they have expressed positive intentions and they seem keen to make cricket part of the Olympic Games"
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According to the Telegraph, the ICC has suggested returning to the Games after a 128-year absence.
Details indicate that the international cricket governing body has suggested a six-team competition with 14-person squads, which will limit the number of athletes. Men's and women's competitions will also be held consecutively rather than simultaneously to reduce costs.
Cricket is one of nine sports that have been shortlisted for inclusion in Los Angeles 2028's inaugural sports programme, which also includes 28 other sports. The core programme of sports is anticipated to be finalised around September, and a final decision on which sports will be featured will be made next year.
The participating teams will be determined by world rankings.
The top six positions in the men's rankings are presently held by India, England, Pakistan, South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia. In the women's rankings, Australia, England, New Zealand, India, South Africa, and the West Indies take up the top six positions.
Only the 1900 Paris Olympics featured cricket, and that year a Great Britain team made up of members of the Devon & Somerset Wanderers Cricket Club won the gold medal game against a French team made up of members of the French Athletic Club Union. Since then, Great Britain has held the title of defending Olympic cricket champions.
Details indicate that the international cricket governing body has suggested a six-team competition with 14-person squads, which will limit the number of athletes. Men's and women's competitions will also be held consecutively rather than simultaneously to reduce costs.
Cricket is one of nine sports that have been shortlisted for inclusion in Los Angeles 2028's inaugural sports programme, which also includes 28 other sports. The core programme of sports is anticipated to be finalised around September, and a final decision on which sports will be featured will be made next year.
The participating teams will be determined by world rankings.
The top six positions in the men's rankings are presently held by India, England, Pakistan, South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia. In the women's rankings, Australia, England, New Zealand, India, South Africa, and the West Indies take up the top six positions.
Only the 1900 Paris Olympics featured cricket, and that year a Great Britain team made up of members of the Devon & Somerset Wanderers Cricket Club won the gold medal game against a French team made up of members of the French Athletic Club Union. Since then, Great Britain has held the title of defending Olympic cricket champions.
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I feel like replacing the t20 World Cup with the olympics and keeping the original 50 over World Cup seems like the best way forward. Both formats keep their relevance as players will care just as much about an Olympic gold medal as a World Cup. In the current system we’re about to have three straight years with world cups (21 t20wc, 22 t20wc, 23 odiwc) which is overkill. The olympics can be a gateway for new countries into the sport and the World Cup can remain more exclusive thereby retaining quality of competition. Not sure how others feel?
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Agreed, having the T20 WC as just the Olympics would be a good idea.
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T20 WC all of a sudden seems like a bigger deal than ODI WC.
This recent t20 WC was the best WC in a long long time and has shifted the momentum towards 20 over cricket as opposed to 50 over cricket.
The success of the recent t20 WC only sped up the demise of 50 overs cricket.
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The ICC has recommended six-team T20 events for both men and women to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games organising committee (LA28), as it continues its push for cricket to be included in the biggest global sports events.
Though there were reports that cricket had failed to make it to the 2028 LA Olympics, but as per a media source no decision has been taken yet and a final call will be taken by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) around October this year after the LA28 organisers finalise the list of new sports by March. These will then be ratified, at the IOC's session in Mumbai, expected to take place around October this year.
If the proposal is accepted, it is likely that the six participating teams would be the top six in the ICC's men's and women's T20 rankings on a cut-off date.
The ICC has not yet finalised a tournament structure - it is still discussing options for this with the LA28 organisers.
T20 was the format proposed since both LA28 and the IOC had told the ICC that the format should be one in which there is a world championship conducted (that would rule out T10, for example), has a compact duration (ruling out ODIs) and significant spectator interest.
Though there were reports that cricket had failed to make it to the 2028 LA Olympics, but as per a media source no decision has been taken yet and a final call will be taken by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) around October this year after the LA28 organisers finalise the list of new sports by March. These will then be ratified, at the IOC's session in Mumbai, expected to take place around October this year.
If the proposal is accepted, it is likely that the six participating teams would be the top six in the ICC's men's and women's T20 rankings on a cut-off date.
The ICC has not yet finalised a tournament structure - it is still discussing options for this with the LA28 organisers.
T20 was the format proposed since both LA28 and the IOC had told the ICC that the format should be one in which there is a world championship conducted (that would rule out T10, for example), has a compact duration (ruling out ODIs) and significant spectator interest.
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India’s expanding cricket market has found resonance in the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) new pitch for the game’s inclusion in the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 2028.
The ICC has been making regular submissions to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and LA28 Organising Committee. In its latest missive, they want the IOC to look at the financial upsides that come with the cricket-crazy Indian market.
“IOC’s media rights income from India would go up to $130 million on a lower end of the scale and touch as much as $260 million if cricket was played at the games, the ICC has argued,” a source familiar with ICC’s pitch said. The IOC’s existing media rights deal for Paris 2024 with Viacom 18 for the Indian market is reportedly worth $31 million.
The ICC have arrived at the calculations riding on the recent bumper response from Indian broadcasters to both Indian Premier League and ICC events' media rights. 2022 is regarded as a watershed moment for cricket valuations with the IPL media rights going up by around 300 % ( ₹48390 crores from ₹16347 crores for 5 years) and ICC rights becoming 400 % more expensive in India – $3 billion for 4 years from approximately $1.5 billion for 8 years.
The ICC has consistently used India’s demographic advantage and its love for cricket to boost its Olympic proposal. A sport’s popularity with youth and digital reach are known to be among the determining criteria.
“We have more than a billion fans globally and almost 90 percent of them want to see cricket at the Olympics,” ICC Chairman Greg Barclay has said. He has also highlighted that 92 % of cricket fans come from South Asia.
Until last year, it was believed cricket, facing stiff competition from motorsport, karate, baseball, softball, lacrosse, breaking, kickboxing, squash and American football would miss the bus for LA 28 and Brisbane Olympics 2032 appeared a probable proposition.
But with the Indian cricket board warming up to the idea, BCCI secretary Jay Shah was included in ICC’s Olympic working group. This week, former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who led the city’s successful bid and is now the Ambassador of the United States of America to India was seen enjoying an IPL match with Shah in Ahmedabad.
Later, in Mumbai, Garcetti said that the United States was keen to include cricket in LA28.
With the IOC intending to cap the number of total athletes to 10,500, the ICC has scaled down participating teams in its proposal to six each for men and women with three-hour-long T20 being the chosen format.
A final call will be taken in IOC’s session in Mumbai in mid-October but the LA OC is expected to make its recommendations to the IOC, a month or so before.
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The ICC has been making regular submissions to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and LA28 Organising Committee. In its latest missive, they want the IOC to look at the financial upsides that come with the cricket-crazy Indian market.
“IOC’s media rights income from India would go up to $130 million on a lower end of the scale and touch as much as $260 million if cricket was played at the games, the ICC has argued,” a source familiar with ICC’s pitch said. The IOC’s existing media rights deal for Paris 2024 with Viacom 18 for the Indian market is reportedly worth $31 million.
The ICC have arrived at the calculations riding on the recent bumper response from Indian broadcasters to both Indian Premier League and ICC events' media rights. 2022 is regarded as a watershed moment for cricket valuations with the IPL media rights going up by around 300 % ( ₹48390 crores from ₹16347 crores for 5 years) and ICC rights becoming 400 % more expensive in India – $3 billion for 4 years from approximately $1.5 billion for 8 years.
The ICC has consistently used India’s demographic advantage and its love for cricket to boost its Olympic proposal. A sport’s popularity with youth and digital reach are known to be among the determining criteria.
“We have more than a billion fans globally and almost 90 percent of them want to see cricket at the Olympics,” ICC Chairman Greg Barclay has said. He has also highlighted that 92 % of cricket fans come from South Asia.
Until last year, it was believed cricket, facing stiff competition from motorsport, karate, baseball, softball, lacrosse, breaking, kickboxing, squash and American football would miss the bus for LA 28 and Brisbane Olympics 2032 appeared a probable proposition.
But with the Indian cricket board warming up to the idea, BCCI secretary Jay Shah was included in ICC’s Olympic working group. This week, former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who led the city’s successful bid and is now the Ambassador of the United States of America to India was seen enjoying an IPL match with Shah in Ahmedabad.
Later, in Mumbai, Garcetti said that the United States was keen to include cricket in LA28.
With the IOC intending to cap the number of total athletes to 10,500, the ICC has scaled down participating teams in its proposal to six each for men and women with three-hour-long T20 being the chosen format.
A final call will be taken in IOC’s session in Mumbai in mid-October but the LA OC is expected to make its recommendations to the IOC, a month or so before.
HindustanTimes
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