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Fresh moves on to make cricket an Olympic sport
Friday March 01, 2013 03:28:08 PM,
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London: Fresh moves
are afoot to have cricket become an Olympic sport perhaps in time
for the 2024 Summer Games.
The popular Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) World Committee is
lobbying for Twenty 20 cricket to be included, claiming it could
significantly raise the profile of the sport.
The earliest the International Cricket Council (IOC) can apply to
be part of the Olympics is for the 2024 Games.
"The MCC World Cricket committee appreciates that a great deal of
effort may be needed to lobby for the inclusion of cricket in the
Olympic Games of 2024," MCC said in a statement.
Cricket has already passed the first stage of selection when it
received full Olympic recognition in 2010.
The MCC World Cricket Committee, which acts as a complementary
body to ICC, admits it would cost the game financially but feels
the positives of being an Olympic sport can make up for such
losses.
"The committee accepts that, were cricket to be played in the
Olympics, there would be a short-term loss in income for the ICC,
and therefore for dispersion to its members," the statement said
following a two day meeting in New Zealand.
"But is impressed with the potential boost for the game worldwide
if cricket were to be included."
The statement also said: "Furthermore, the committee advocates
Twenty20 cricket as the format to be played at the Olympics,
thereby providing the ``pinnacle`` of that form of the sport."
IOC president Jacques Rogge has encouraged the sport to put
forward a case for its inclusion, saying they would welcome an
application, adding cricket is an important, popular sport and
very powerful on television.
Also, one of the game's more outspoken advocate's Australian
cricketers Adam Gilchrist has been pushing for T20 cricket to be
included in the 2020 Olympic Games.
Cricket was part of the 1900 Olympics in Paris and has not
appeared since.
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