Ricky Ponting, a former captain of Australia, made a comment on the subject lately, saying that cricket’s inclusion in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics would be extremely beneficial for the future of the sport. He noted that this development would be especially noteworthy because baseball, basketball, and soccer have historically dominated grassroots sports in the US. He also stressed that cricket now has a significant chance to enter and become well-known at the country’s most basic level.
There has been a lot of excitement and discussion in the cricketing community when it was announced that both men’s and women’s T20I cricket will be played at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Much discussion and conjecture on the possible long-term effects on the sport have been generated by this inclusion.
It can only be advantageous for our game. How to bring the game back into the Olympics has been at the top of nearly every committee agenda I’ve served on in the past 15 or 20 years. At last, there it is. That’s not even four years away. “I believe it also presents an opportunity for cricket to become more widely known in the US,” Ponting stated on The ICC Review.
The audience that it opens up to is the focus: Ricky Ponting
Regarding the same topic, the three-time World Cup winner went on to explain that one of the main benefits of having cricket in the Games would be the diversification of the sport into areas that it had not yet been explored by increasing its target audience.
“The issue with the Olympic Games isn’t the country that is hosting them. It concerns the audience that it makes available. The fact that so many people watch the Olympics every year simply opens up new markets for our sport, which is already expanding daily, in any case (witness the growth of franchise leagues around the world). It can only be extremely beneficial for the game, Ponting said. Ponting was notably excited about the promising path the sport was about to go as well.
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“I’m really excited about where the game’s headed and the growth of different markets that we’re seeing emerge,” he said. When the US co-hosted the Men’s T20 World Cup with the West Indies earlier this year, the sport attracted a lot of attention in the US.
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