Cricket Returning to the 2028 Olympics

Cricket will be re-entering the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, USA, largely due to its increasing global popularity and potential for significant sales.

Cricket is a sport using a bat and a ball and played with two teams of eleven players, like soccer. The goal is to score by hitting a ball and running between wickets while the fielding team tries to prevent this from happening. Cricket is extremely popular in England, Australia, and India, and is gaining popularity in the US. It is now the world’s second popular sport! Cricket will be played in a short version called T20 or Twenty20, where each team gets to play twenty overs. It takes about 3 hours to finish and is easy and simple to view for new fans learning about cricket. “How it would be representing India and putting up a flag, people are watching it must be a great idea,” Ravichandran Ashwin, representing the Indian cricket team in a video on ICC, says about cricket in the Olympics.

They will choose the big regions: Asia, Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Oceania which will each have one country chosen to play. The USA will certainly be chosen because it will host the Olympics.

The Olympic cricket matches will be held from July 12th to July 29th, 2028, and all games will happen at the Fairplex Stadium in Pomona, California. The men’s final will be on the 29th and the women’s will be on July 20.

In the present, cricket is still new in the United States, but cricket in the Olympics could help the sport grow even more. Hopefully, the cricket matches and all the other sports will be successful for the teams in 3 years! Maybe cricket will even be a permanent or forever sport in the Olympics!