Pakistan’s captain Salman Agha (Left) and his Indian counterpart Suryakumar Yadav (Proper) stroll to the sphere earlier than the beginning of the Asia Cup 2025 closing on the Dubai Worldwide Stadium on September 28, 2025. — AFP
Cricket’s long-awaited Olympic comeback at Los Angeles 2028 received’t guarantee a marquee Pakistan–India matchup, with the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) nearing completion of a regional qualifying system to resolve six collaborating groups, worldwide media reported Saturday.
The proposed pathway, mentioned on the ICC Board assembly in Dubai on Friday, would ship the top-ranked crew from every continent straight to the Video games.
Beneath that components, India is predicted to safe Asia’s berth, whereas Australia (Oceania), South Africa (Africa) and Nice Britain (Europe) would additionally qualify mechanically.
Nevertheless, it remained unclear whether or not the USA of America (USA) will clinch the fifth spot on the advantage of being the host nation, because the West Indies are additionally in competition from the Americas.
For the reason that components would deprive key cricketing nations – Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh – of direct qualification, it was proposed that the sixth crew must be decided by a world qualifier, the main points for that are anticipated to be introduced quickly.
“There have been discussions around the participation of teams, and it has been decided that the six teams will come through the top-ranked team from each region/continent, while the sixth comes from the global qualifier. The details will be shared by the ICC in due course, but the roadmap has more or less been frozen,” stated a veteran administrator who was a part of the assembly in Dubai.
For the unversed, the boys’s and ladies’s cricket tournaments at LA 2028 might be performed within the T20 format.
The ICC has already confirmed that each competitions will run from July 12 to July 29, 2028, with the ladies’s medal match scheduled for July 20 and the boys’s closing on July 29.
Cricket will make its return to the Olympic stage after 128 years. The game’s solely earlier look was on the 1900 Paris Video games, the place Nice Britain defeated France in a one-off match to say gold.
