The Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) and the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) have confirmed the qualification pathway for cricket’s historic return to the Olympics on the 2028 video games in Los Angeles, with Nice Britain certified for the ladies’s occasion.
Each the boys’s and ladies’s T20 competitions will embody six nations – and Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania are all assured illustration.
5 qualification locations in every occasion might be determined via a mix of current ICC occasions and ICC T20I rankings.
The sixth and ultimate locations in each the boys’s and ladies’s competitions might be decided via the brand new ICC Olympics qualifier, which is able to happen in 2027.
Within the ladies’s competitors, Nice Britain (through England), Australia, India, and South Africa have already certified because of being the highest-placed eligible finishers from Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania on the present ongoing ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup.
Certified nations will be capable to decide from a squad of 15 gamers, with groups divided into teams of three. Groups will play one another as soon as earlier than enjoying two additional matches in opposition to groups within the reverse group who didn’t end in the identical place.
The ultimate high two will contest for gold and silver medals, with the third and fourth-highest nations competing for bronze.
There might be a mixed whole of 28 matches performed throughout each males’s and ladies’s occasions, and all matches will happen on the purpose-built cricket venue in Pomona.
ICC chairman Jay Shah mentioned: “Cricket’s return to the Olympic Games is a landmark moment for our sport and a powerful opportunity to showcase the very best of cricket to the world.
“The affirmation of this qualification pathway is a crucial step in the direction of Los Angeles 2028 and provides members the world over a transparent and thrilling path to the Olympic stage.
“The Olympic Games represent the pinnacle of multi-event sport, and cricket’s inclusion at LA28 will inspire players and fans in every region.
“That is an historic second, and one in every of nice alternative for our members, as we proceed to develop the sport and take it to new audiences world wide.”
