By Mehr Jan
Cricket officially returned to the Olympic scene-and this time in the fast-paced T20 format. Sports, each male and female categories with six teams in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics (LA28) will return to the games after more than a century.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Greenlit Cricket’s inclusion in October 2023 during his session in Mumbai closed his return after a lonely view in Paris in 1900.
This two-day hundred-closed historical match between the Great Britain and France has been seen as an informal test since then. However, in La28, Cricket Prime is preparing for time.
T20 reckoning and a shrinking window to be entitled
Both sides will be allowed to enter a 15 -member staff with a total of 90 athletes per gender as part of the structured quota of the activity.
Although the ultimate qualification path has not yet been announced, the first five countries in the ICC ranking T20I ranking are expected to be likely to take the host Nation-automatic entry into the United States of the United States in the Golden War.
This scenario leaves only five qualified nests, which sparks the intrigues to be cut off the cricket weights.
Questions about the representation of the West Indian Islands continue. Unlike the ICC events, the Caribbean countries are competing individually in the Olympics and as seen in the 2022 Nations Community Games in which Barbados represents the region, it increases the probability of an island by taking the Olympic phase.
IOC’s sports director Kit McConnell discussed the problem last year and said that the committee would weigh both global competitiveness and regional diversity while staying on the athlete quota.
“Normally, one of the teams in the host country team sports, Mc said McConnell,“ and then we look at the balance of global power and regional representation. ”
Five new additions, gender equality on cards
Cricket baseball/volleyball joins Squash as five new sports approved for Flag football, Flag football, Lakros (Sixes) and La28. These additions broke 351 – 22 more records of the total number of medals from the Paris 2024 edition.
The games will be history for another reason: all team sports will have an equal number of men and women’s teams and take an important step towards gender parity.
Boxing will finally reach gender equality and will be introduced in a way that complies with the format of the seventh female weight class.
While the details about Cricket’s Olympic format continue to emerge, something is certain-Sports, on the contrary, it is prepared for a global showcase, and the fans can expect a high octane, six-striking show when the T20 format fires Los Angeles.
