LA (Los Angeles) Olympics
After waiting 128 years cricket will feature in the Olympics games in LA (Los Angeles), Cricket will include men and women as a six-team in the format of T-20 in 2028 as reported by ICC (The International Cricket Council) biggest sports cricket as welcoming to include by Olympics.
Despite viral reports suggesting that the cricket game has failed to cut the LA Olympics games, ESPNcricinfo which is the world’s leading cricket website and also among the top five single-sport websites in the world gave relief by confirming that no such decision has been taken by International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) the final decision will be taken at time of around October and November will conduct the meeting in Mumbai, India.
Cricket made its last appearance in the 1900 Olympic Games which was conducted in Paris.(Greg Barclay) ICC chairman said the “sport is united behind this bid” and cricket is the sport that is part of the Olympic’s “long-term future”. “We have more than a billion fans globally and almost 90 percent of them want to see cricket at the Olympics,” says Grey Barclay.
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Cricket has a super strong interest among young and old people with passionate dreams of becoming cricketers. It has a solid fanbase in the world, especially in South Asia fans where 92% more show a strong interest in Earth, whereas in the USA cricket fans are also nearly 30 million interested in this sport.
Most likely our favorite players play cricket at the Olympics this could be the coolest movement in cricket history ever seen by their fans.
IOC (International Olympic Committee) has added sports to the 2020 Tokyo program such as baseball/softball, skateboard, sport climbing, karate, and Surfing, and now cricket most awaited sport to be added after 128 years.
Cricket King Virat Kohli’s fan following base popularity is the main reason to cricket is getting a place in the Olympics because Virat Kohli is one of most popular cricketers in the world athletes with an Instagram handle following of around 266millon on social media said to IOC (International Olympic Committee).
IOC believes that viral Kohli following over social media around the world will help the Olympics attract new fans for cricket in the Olympics and make one more sport popular around the world.
