NEXT year in Rio de Janeiro, 28 sports will feature in the Olympic Games. Alongside traditional Olympic sports such as athletics, rugby sevens will make its debut, while golf will appear for the first time since 1904. Yet while the number of sports in the Games has grown, cricket, reckoned by some to be the world’s second most popular sport, will not be among them. Indeed, it has featured only once: in the 1900 Games, when Devon and Somerset Wanderers, representing England, beat the French Athletic Club Union in a match only officially recognised as part of the Olympics 12 years later.
Many would like the sport to return to the fold. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is trying to attract more viewers in the Indian subcontinent; a cricket tournament would help enormously. The IOC officially recognised the International Cricket Council (ICC), the sport’s governing body, in 2010. This leaves the onus on cricket to decide whether to apply for inclusion in the Games....Continue reading
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