“It may possibly solely be a constructive factor for our sport. I’ve sat on numerous committees during the last 15 or 20 years, and it is all the time been on the highest of virtually each agenda – how can we get the sport again into the Olympics? And eventually, it is there,” Ponting stated on The ICC Overview. “It is solely 4 years away. I believe it additionally offers cricket an opportunity to interrupt into the grassroots stage within the US.”
Cricket is returning to the Video games after 128 years, with the one time it featured beforehand being in 1900, with two groups – Nice Britain and France – collaborating, and the previous profitable gold.
“The factor in regards to the Olympic Video games, it isn’t [about] the host nation. It is in regards to the viewers that it opens up,” Ponting stated. “The Olympic Video games being considered by so many individuals all around the globe, it simply opens up fully totally different audiences to our sport that is seemingly rising every day anyway. It may possibly solely be an actual constructive factor for the sport.”
“So all these are issues to consider, [but] I am actually enthusiastic about the place the sport’s headed and the expansion of various markets that we’re seeing emerge.”
Cricket at LA28 will probably be performed within the T20 format, with each males’s and ladies’s groups set to function.
Edited PTI copy.
