New Delhi [India]April 10 (Memorial): La 2028 Cricket, Men’s and Women’s Tournaments in the Olympic Games will be included in six teams, each of them was confirmed on Wednesday.
Sports, which have been lacking the Olympics for more than a century, took part in Paris 1900, where a two-day match between the Great Britain and France was accepted as an unofficial test.
LA 2028 will be played in the Fast T20 format and six teams will compete in both male and female tournaments. A total of 90 athlete quotas were allocated for each gender and allowed each team to name a 15 -member staff according to Olympic.com.
International Cricket Council (ICC) 12 ‘full members’ – Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indian Islands and Zimbabve. Another 94 countries represents ‘joint members’.
India (Men) and New Zealand (Women) are current T20 world champions.
The event program and athlete quotas for LA 2028 were approved by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Committee (EB) on Wednesday.
Cricket is one of the five new sports in the upcoming Olympics. The IOC approved the inclusion of the cricket into LA28 two years ago with baseball/volleyball, flag football, lacros (six) and Squash.
For La 2028, the cricket venues have not yet been approved. The program will be closer to games.
The inclusion of Cricket into LA28 follows an increasing trend of sports in different multiple sports events. In the 1998 League of Nations in Kuala Lumpur, a male jack tournament was held, while the female CWG release was released in Birmingham 2022.
Both Men’s and Women’s Cricket Tournaments played in popular T20 format were part of the Asian games in 2010, 2014 and 2023.
Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games participated in eight teams, while 14 teams competed at Hangzhou Asia Games, while nine women played the competition. (MOMENT)
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