Will cricket be included in the 2028 Olympics? ICC raised hopes

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Mike Gatting said that it would be just a matter of two weeks and not a full month, so it would be one of those tournaments that would not have any problem in making a two-week schedule.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) hopes that cricket will also be included in the Olympic Games to be held in Los Angeles in 2028. MCC (Merlibon Cricket Club) Cricket Committee Chairman Mike Gatting has said that the ICC is trying to include the sport in the Olympic Games to be held in Los Angeles in 2028.

Gatting said this by referring to what was said by the ICC Chief Executive Manu Swahane at Lord’s this week. ESPN Cricinfo quoted Gating as saying that we were talking to Manu Swayne and he is hopeful that cricket can get a place in the 2028 Olympics. He is working very strongly on this. This will be a big thing for cricket globally.

Gating said that it would be a matter of only two weeks and not a whole month, so it would be one of those tournaments in which there would be no problem in making a two-week schedule.

On 9 August, the Central Sports Secretary of India Radheshyam Julania told that the BCCI has agreed to come under the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA). Gating welcomed the move.

Cricket will be included in Commonwealth Games

It was recently announced that women’s cricket would be included in the Birmingham Commonwealth Games to be held in 2022. Mike Gatting said that this will be confirmed in the coming weeks.

He said that I think that in tomorrow or a day or two a statement will come about whether the women cricketer will participate in the Commonwealth Games to be held in Edgbaston. We hope to get approval in this matter, which will be fantastic.

If cricket is included, it will be the first time since 1998 that cricket will be included in this event.