Desperately wanting to maximize the wealthy Indian market, the IOC could add the sport as soon as the 2028 Games in Los Angeles.
The world’s most populous country really cares about only one sport, but India’s 1.4 billion people and soaring economy are enough to attract the attention of the International Olympic Committee — so much so that cricket could find its way onto the program for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.With its complicated rules and days-long matches that sometimes end in ties, cricket never fit the Games, which partially explains why India has had little Olympic relevance beyond 35 medals, 10 of them gold.
The reasons are obvious. The IOC sees India as the next frontier, and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi sees the Olympics as a means for his global ambitions. “Look at the size of the cricket fan base in the Indian subcontinent,” Burns says. “People might say cricket isn’t big in the U.S., but it’s bigger in a place that is four times bigger than the U.S.”, when just two countries, England and France, played the Olympics’ lone match. After that, cricket and its days-long matches disappeared from the Games without much discussion about bringing it back. Then in 2008 the IPL came along.
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