Pakistan’s Imam-ul-Haq shakes arms with India’s KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer after the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 match at Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad, India, October 14, 2023. — Reuters
Cricket on the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics shall be performed in a brief, purpose-built construction on the Fairgrounds in Pomona, Southern California, the organising committee introduced on Tuesday.
Based on a press launch issued by the Olympics organising committee, the Fairgrounds in Pomona, formally generally known as Fairplex, is a near-500-acre occasion complicated in Southern California that has hosted the Los Angeles County Truthful since 1922. It is usually a year-round venue for concert events, commerce exhibits, sports activities and cultural occasions.
“We’ve promised the world an incredible Olympic Games and today we’re proud to share the plan that will make it happen,” stated LA28 CEO Reynold Hoover. “Los Angeles is the epicentre of sports, culture and entertainment, and every venue selected for the 2028 Games will provide athletes and fans the best possible experience.”
The Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) has welcomed the announcement as pleasure round cricket’s Olympic comeback has been constructing because it was confirmed that the game would return to the Video games after a 128-year hole.
The game final featured at Paris 1900, the place a one-off, two-day match between Nice Britain and France was held—now recognised as an unofficial Take a look at.
Each the boys’s and ladies’s T20 competitions will function six groups every, with a 90-player quota allotted per gender, permitting every nation to subject a squad of as much as 15 gamers.
The total match schedule shall be finalised nearer to the beginning of the Video games.
“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,” ICC Chair Jay Shah said.
“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.
“On behalf of the ICC, I want to express my gratitude to LA28 and the International Olympic Committee for their support and look forward to collaborating with them and ICC Members in preparing for LA28 and making cricket a huge success there.”
Cricket’s return to the Olympics was confirmed in October 2023, alongside the inclusion of 5 extra sports activities for the Los Angeles Video games – baseball/softball, flag soccer, lacrosse (sixes) and squash.
The T20 format has beforehand featured in multi-sport occasions, with each males’s and ladies’s competitions held on the Asian Video games in 2010, 2014 and 2023. The 2022 Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham featured a girls’s T20 match.
