Cricket at the 2028 Summer Olympics

International cricket tournament

Cricket

at the Games of the XXXIV Olympiad

Venue| Fairplex, Pomona, Southern California[1]
Date| July 12–29, 2028
Competitors| 180 from 12 nations

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Cricket will be reintroduced at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, United States. It will be the second time that cricket has been played at the games. It was last played during the Summer Olympics in 1900. It will be a Twenty20 (T20) format tournament with men's and women's teams competing.[2]

## Background

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Cricket has had a history in the early Olympics. In the first modern Olympics in 1896 in Athens it was planned that cricket would be played as a medal sport but due to a lack of entries, the planned event did not occur.[3] In 1900 in Paris, four teams entered: Great Britain (listed as England in posters advertising it and represented by Devon & Somerset Wanderers),[3] France, Belgium and the Netherlands. However, only one match was played between Great Britain and France, with Great Britain winning the two-day match. The players did not realize this was an Olympic event until it was retrospectively recognized as one in 1912.[3] Cricket was scheduled for the 1904 Games but was cancelled shortly before the start of the Games[4] and not considered for inclusion in the century following.[3]

For many years, many of cricket's governing bodies, including the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), were long opposed to a return to the Olympics.[5] The ECB withdrew their opposition in 2015,[6] and in March 2017 it was reported that International Cricket Council chief Dave Richardson thought the "time is right" for Olympic cricket.[7] It was also reported that the opposition of the BCCI had softened.[8]

In October 2020, USA Cricket stated that it saw a proposed inclusion of cricket to the 2028 Summer Olympics program in Los Angeles as a long-term goal.[9][10] In 2020, the BCCI in its Annual General Meeting decided to back the ICC's bid for inclusion of T20 cricket in 2028 after getting some clarifications from the International Olympic Committee.[11][12][13] In August 2021, the ICC confirmed its plans to bid for the inclusion of cricket at the Olympics, starting with the 2028 and 2032 games.[14]

On October 9, 2023, the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee announced that cricket was on the list of sports they wished to introduce.[15] On October 13, 2023, the IOC announced that the bid was accepted and placed under voting to finalize its inclusion in 2028 during the 141st IOC Session in Mumbai between October 14 to 16, 2023. It was confirmed on October 16, 2023, that cricket, including both men's and women's T20 tournaments, would be featured in the 2028 Olympics as only two voted against inclusion.[16][17][18][19]

Later that month, it was announced that cricket will be played at a temporary venue at the Fairplex in Pomona, California.[1] Organizers had considered holding the event in the Eastern United States in order to allow more favorable scheduling of matches for prime time viewership in India, but it was decided to keep the event within Los Angeles County so that players would be able to stay at the Olympic Village.[20] A temporary stadium known as the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium had been used to host part of the 2024 Men's T20 World Cup in the New York City area, given the lack of cricket-specific facilities in the country.[20]

## Format

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In April 2025 it was confirmed by the IOC that both the men's and women's competitions would be in the Twenty20 format and made up of six teams each. Each nation will have 15 players in their squad after cricket was allocated 90 athletes per gender for the event.[21] A number of elite national cricket teams do not organise within standard IOC recognised jurisdictions; of the twelve full member teams three, England, Ireland and the West Indies, do not correspond directly to National Olympic Committees, although the Olympic Federation of Ireland has experience in organising all-island teams for the Olympic Games in both field hockey and rugby sevens. In April 2025, Cricket Scotland (a high-ranked associate nation) and the England and Wales Cricket Board announced discussions were underway to create a Great Britain Olympic cricket team for the Games, having been the gold medalists in the only previous Olympic cricket competition.[22]

Both men's and women's competition will see a first phase with the six teams split into two groups of three. The second phase will see teams play those in the opposite group who did not finish in the same position. Results from the four matches will be used to construct a final table where first and second will contest the gold medal match, and third and fourth will contest the bronze medal match.[23]

Gold medal matches will be played on 20 and 29 July with the first match being played on 12 July.[23]

## Qualification

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### Men's tournament

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International Cricket Council, the governing body of cricket have chosen a regional qualifying format of the type favoured by the Olympics to encourage universality and ensure that all continents of the world are represented. Qualification for the tournaments will therefore be decided based on continents and by play-off matches, rather than the top six-ranked sides, according to the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) chief executive Richard Thompson.[24]

It is anticipated that preference will be given to the 12 full member sides in the first instance, so that

* the European place would be decided by a playoff between a Great Britain team organised jointly by ECB and Cricket Scotland and an Ireland side organised by Cricket Ireland, with Northern Ireland players representing Ireland as they do in ICC competition,
* the Oceania place will be decided by a play-off between Australia and New Zealand,
* the African place by a playoff between South Africa and Zimbabwe,
* the Pan American and Asian places will be decided by short tournaments involving all eligible teams; India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan in the case of Asia, and each of the member associations of the West Indies Cricket Board that have a National Olympic Committee.

The sixth and final place is reserved for the hosts, the United States, but may be ceded to a final qualification competition dependant on governance reforms in USA Cricket.[2]

### Women's tournament

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Qualification for the women's tournament will be decided by the 2026 T20 World Cup.

## Medalists

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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## References

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2. ^ a b "LA 2028: IOC says cricket's Olympic return will be as six-team T20 tournament for men and women". BBC Sport. April 10, 2025. Retrieved May 14, 2025.
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6. ^ Gibson, Owen (July 14, 2015). "ECB drops opposition to T20 cricket being in Olympics, says MCC". The Guardian. Archived from the original on August 13, 2024. Retrieved October 17, 2023.
7. ^ Wigmore, Tom (July 25, 2017). "Cricket is on the verge of making its application for Olympic inclusion". The Guardian. Archived from the original on November 7, 2018. Retrieved November 11, 2023.
8. ^ Wigmore, Tom (July 24, 2017). "Women's World Cup success moves cricket closer to Olympic return in 2024". The Guardian. Archived from the original on November 6, 2018. Retrieved November 11, 2023.
9. ^ "USA Cricket plan to make country leading nation in the sport". Inside the Games. October 16, 2020. Archived from the original on October 22, 2023. Retrieved October 17, 2020.
10. ^ "USA Cricket targets ICC full member status by 2030". SportsPro Media. October 16, 2020. Archived from the original on October 26, 2023. Retrieved October 17, 2020.
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12. ^ "IPL 2022 teams: BBCI okays 10 team IPL from 2022, backs inclusion of cricket in the Olympics". The Times of India. December 24, 2020. Archived from the original on August 13, 2024. Retrieved December 24, 2020.
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14. ^ "ICC confirms cricket's Olympic ambition". International Cricket Council. Archived from the original on September 10, 2022. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
15. ^ Wharton, David (October 9, 2023). "L.A. names coveted five provisional sports it wants to add for 2028 Olympics". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on November 11, 2023. Retrieved October 10, 2023.
16. ^ "T20 cricket confirmed as one of five new sports at LA28". ESPNcricinfo. October 16, 2023. Archived from the original on October 23, 2023. Retrieved October 16, 2023.
17. ^ "IOC accepts recommendation to include T20 cricket in 2028 Los Angeles Olympics". ESPNcricinfo. October 13, 2023. Archived from the original on October 22, 2023. Retrieved October 16, 2023.
18. ^ "Cricket officially confirmed for LA Olympics 2028 | Cricbuzz.com". Cricbuzz. October 16, 2023. Archived from the original on October 27, 2023. Retrieved October 16, 2023.
19. ^ "Cricket going for gold as Olympic Games inclusion confirmed for 2028". www.icc-cricket.com. Archived from the original on October 26, 2023. Retrieved October 16, 2023.
20. ^ a b "LA 2028: Olympic cricket tournament will be played in a California fairground as New York overlooked". BBC Sport. April 15, 2025. Retrieved April 20, 2025.
21. ^ Abraham, Timothy (April 10, 2025). "LA 2028: IOC says cricket's Olympic return will be as six-team T20 tournament for men and women". BBC Sport. Retrieved April 11, 2025.
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24. ^ "LA Olympics 2028: Cricket's qualification to be decided by continents and play-offs". BBC Sport. July 31, 2025. Retrieved July 31, 2025.

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