The England's executive and Wales Cricket Board, Colin Graves, is confident that cricket will turn into an Olympic game to develop the diversion "all through various nations".
The ICC board affirmed for this present week that its CEO, Dave Richardson, and Graves' antecedent as ECB executive, Giles Clarke, will meet delegates of the International Olympic Council (IOC) to talk about conceivably incorporating the game in future Olympics in the wake of accepting "a few methodologies from multi-sport associations".
The issue is likewise because of be talked about at the following ECB executive meeting and Graves, who succeeded Clarke not long ago, trusts it could be a critical improvement for the game.
"I think it ought to be an Olympic sport in some organization," he told Cricinfo.
"It's amplifying the game all through various nations. Partners, and everyone, could play in the Olympics. I will be requesting that the board bolster it.
"I'm not saying T20 is the best approach to do it. I don't have the foggiest idea. Someone may concoct something altogether distinctive – a 10-over rivalry, who knows? It's fitting it into the timetable and the grounds, wherever the Olympics are held."
Graves included: "We are having an executive meeting with the ECB before Giles Clarke has that meeting with the Olympic Committee, so Giles Clarke will know where the ECB board is originating from. It's not about identities and what they think. It's about what the ECB board think."
Cricket was last incorporated into the Olympics in 1900, when Great Britain – spoke to by Devon and Somerset Wanderers – beat France in the main match of the competition by 158
The ICC board affirmed for this present week that its CEO, Dave Richardson, and Graves' antecedent as ECB executive, Giles Clarke, will meet delegates of the International Olympic Council (IOC) to talk about conceivably incorporating the game in future Olympics in the wake of accepting "a few methodologies from multi-sport associations".
The issue is likewise because of be talked about at the following ECB executive meeting and Graves, who succeeded Clarke not long ago, trusts it could be a critical improvement for the game.
"I think it ought to be an Olympic sport in some organization," he told Cricinfo.
"It's amplifying the game all through various nations. Partners, and everyone, could play in the Olympics. I will be requesting that the board bolster it.
"I'm not saying T20 is the best approach to do it. I don't have the foggiest idea. Someone may concoct something altogether distinctive – a 10-over rivalry, who knows? It's fitting it into the timetable and the grounds, wherever the Olympics are held."
Graves included: "We are having an executive meeting with the ECB before Giles Clarke has that meeting with the Olympic Committee, so Giles Clarke will know where the ECB board is originating from. It's not about identities and what they think. It's about what the ECB board think."
Cricket was last incorporated into the Olympics in 1900, when Great Britain – spoke to by Devon and Somerset Wanderers – beat France in the main match of the competition by 158
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