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Cricket is acceptable to instrumentality to the Olympics aft implicit a century, and the ICC has finalised however the six participating teams volition beryllium picked for the Los Angeles 2028 Games. (Photo credit: AFP)
Cricket is acceptable to instrumentality to the Olympics aft implicit a century, and the International Cricket Council (ICC) has finalised however the six participating teams volition beryllium picked for the Los Angeles 2028 Games.
During its caller Board gathering successful Dubai connected Friday, the planetary cricket assemblage confirmed that six teams each from some men's and women's categories volition diagnostic successful cricket's archetypal quality astatine the Games since the Paris Olympics successful 1900. The ICC has been successful a huddle discussing the imaginable arrangements, and the archetypal thought of conscionable the apical six teams arsenic per the ICC T20I rankings has been enactment to rest. It volition present beryllium an statement wherever the apical squad from each region/continent volition marque the cut, and the sixth squad volition travel done a planetary qualifier.
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"There person been discussions astir the information of teams, and it has been decided that the six teams volition travel done the top-ranked squad from each region/continent, portion the sixth comes from the planetary qualifier. The details volition beryllium shared by the ICC successful owed course, but the roadmap has much oregon little been frozen," says a seasoned head who was portion of the gathering successful Dubai.The statement means each apical broadside from each continent/region volition marque the archetypal 5 teams.
That fundamentally means that, based connected existent rankings, India suffice from Asia, Australia from Oceania, England from Europe, South Africa from Africa, and it volition beryllium absorbing to spot whether the USA — considering they are hosts — suffice from the Americas oregon West Indies would instrumentality the spot. The details of the planetary qualifier are apt to beryllium shared by the planetary cricket assemblage soon.There could beryllium a beardown anticipation of not seeing an India vs Pakistan contention astatine LA28, arsenic the details of the planetary qualifier are inactive unknown.
In the elaborate connection aft the meeting, the ICC mentioned the occurrence of women's cricket and besides shared an update connected the LA28 Games."The Board reviewed the ICC’s ongoing engagement with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games (LA28), arsenic cricket deepens its footprint successful the planetary multisport landscape. At LA28, some the men’s and women’s T20 events volition diagnostic six teams each, comprising 28 matches successful total," work the media release.
