Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) chairman Jay Shah met the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) president Kirsty Coventry throughout an IOC assembly in Switzerland and mentioned the highway to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics and cricket’s return to the Summer time Video games.
The IOC accredited cricket’s inclusion for LA28 final yr, and it’ll mark the game’s second-ever Olympic look, 128 years after its debut in Paris 1900, when Nice Britain claimed gold in a one-off match in opposition to France.
“It was a pleasure to satisfy with IOC President Kirsty Coventry to proceed our ongoing discussions on the highway to @LA28 and Cricket’s return to the Olympic Video games. We mirrored on the progress made thus far and the numerous function cricket can play within the development of the Olympic motion,” Shah wrote on X whereas additionally sharing the image of the assembly.
Shah has been one of many primary drivers behind cricket’s inclusion within the 2028 Olympic Video games. She additionally attended the IOC presidential elections in Greece earlier this yr, when Coventry grew to become the primary girl to carry the distinguished world sporting submit. She additionally grew to become the primary African to be elected within the function as nicely.
Cricket may have six groups compete within the T20 format in each the lads’s and ladies’s tournaments on the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics. Every gender has been allotted 90 athlete quotas, permitting collaborating nations to area squads of 15 gamers.
T20 competitions for the lads’s and ladies’s classes at LA28 will run from July 12 to 29, 2028. The medal matches shall be held on July 20 (ladies’s) and July 29 (males’s), respectively. All matches shall be staged on the Fairgrounds in Pomona, about 50 km from downtown Los Angeles.
In January this yr, Shah additionally met former IOC president Thomas Bach and different senior officers and attended an LA 2028 Worldwide Federations seminar on the Olympic Home in Lausanne, Switzerland. The assembly was targeted on key areas of collaboration between the ICC and the IOC within the build-up to the LA 2028 Olympic Video games.