The Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) has welcomed the announcement of Fairgrounds in Pomona, Southern California, because the venue for cricket on the Olympic Video games Los Angeles 2028 (LA28).
The cricket competitors at LA28 will characteristic six groups every within the males’s and girls’s competitions, marking the game’s return to the Video games after 128 years.
ICC Chair, Mr. Jay Shah, has welcomed the venue affirmation and expressed his eagerness to work in partnership with the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) to make sure cricket’s success on the Video games.
ICC Chair, Jay Shah, said: “We welcome the announcement of the venue for cricket at Los Angeles 2028, as it’s a important step in the direction of making ready for our sport’s return to the Olympics.
“Though cricket is a vastly fashionable sport, its inclusion within the Olympics, within the fast-paced, thrilling T20 format, ought to enchantment to new audiences and supply a incredible alternative to develop conventional boundaries.
“On behalf of the ICC, I wish to specific my gratitude to LA28 and the Worldwide Olympic Committee for his or her assist, and I sit up for collaborating with them and ICC Members in making ready for LA28 and making certain cricket’s resounding success there.”
Cricket, which made its solely earlier Olympic look on the Paris Video games in 1900, was included within 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 car for the expansion of the sport, has additionally featured in different multi-sport occasions in recent times.
The Asian Video games in 2010, 2014, and 2023 featured each males’s and girls’s T20 competitions, whereas the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Video games staged a ladies’s competitors.
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