Thompson also expressed an ambition for more than six teams to take part, with the 2032 Games to be played in Brisbane and likely a three-way tussle for 2036 between Qatar, Saudi and India – with the hope that the latter would see cricket at the “front and centre”. <\/p>\n
He also said that talks are still ongoing regarding the opportunity for cricket in the Paralympics, but believes that its inclusion in the Games will “globalise” the sport. <\/p>\n
“At the moment we are a very significant international game, but once you’re at the Olympics you become a global game. <\/p>\n
“China will only focus on sport that is in the Olympics, they will look to Hong Kong to be their outpost for cricket.<\/p>\n
“The opportunity to grow the game globally is very, very real and it starts now and we’ll certainly see that play out in 2028.”<\/p>\n
The matches, featuring both men’s and women’s teams, will begin on 12 July – two days before the opening ceremony – with all matches staged at a venue which will be constructed at the Fairgrounds in Pomona.<\/p>\n
There will be two games played daily at Pomona – located 30 miles from the athletes’ village in Los Angeles – starting at 09:00 and 18:30 Pacific Daylight Time.<\/p>\n
Those matches will be shown at 21:30 and 07:00 India Standard Time (17:00 and 02:30 British Summer Time).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thompson also expressed an ambition for more than six teams to take part, with the 2032 Games to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-307380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114949580658675160","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}