LA 2028 Olympics: South California metropolis of Pomona to host cricket

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South California metropolis of Pomona will host the cricket competitors in the course of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, the ICC introduced right here on Tuesday (April 15, 2025).

The cricket occasion, which can characteristic six groups every in males’s and ladies’s classes, will probably be held on the Fairgrounds in Pomona with the game set to be part of the Olympics after 128 years.

ICC chairman Jay Shah stated in a launch, “We welcome the announcement of the venue for cricket at Los Angeles 2028 as it’s a vital step in the direction of the preparation for our sport’s return to the Olympics.” “Though cricket is a massively common sport, it is going to be a implausible alternative to broaden conventional boundaries when it options within the Olympics within the fast-paced, thrilling T20 format that ought to attraction to new audiences.” Cricket, which made its solely look within the Olympics on the Paris Video games in 1900, was included within the Los Angeles Olympics programme after IOC’s 141st Session at Mumbai in October 2023.

Cricket joined 5 new sports activities at LA28, together with baseball/softball, flag soccer, lacrosse (sixes) and squash.

The T20 format, recognised because the automobile for the expansion of the sport by the ICC, has additionally featured in different multi-sport occasions in recent times. The Asian Video games in 2010, 2014 and 2023 featured each males’s and ladies’s T20 competitions whereas the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Video games staged a ladies’s competitors.