Discussions are going down concerning the formation of a Nice Britain cricket group that would compete on the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Video games.
The talks between the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Cricket Scotland to ascertain a Crew GB aspect have begun as the game prepares to make its return to the Video games.
Cricket Scotland chief govt Trudy Lindblade instructed BBC Radio 4: “We have now a extremely good working relationship with the ECB, so now we have been in talks with them and [we’re] within the course of of creating a Crew GB cricket entity.
“That is what’s required by the British Olympic Affiliation (BOA) for a British group to compete on the Olympic Video games.”
The ECB has confirmed these discussions to BBC Sport.
Olympic cricket occasions at LA 2028 will probably be performed as six-team T20 tournaments for each women and men, the Worldwide Olympic Committee introduced final week.
“So it is actually attention-grabbing, the six groups for us, we might have a chance via the GB idea,” Lindblade mentioned.
Collaborating groups will be capable of subject squads of as much as 15 gamers, however the qualification course of has not but been confirmed.
“There’s rather a lot to return by way of how qualification takes place, not only for these six groups however how – if a GB group had been to qualify – now we have choice inside that,” Lindblade added.
“So, thrilling occasions, and we’ll proceed to liaise with the ECB and our colleagues at LA 2028 and ICC. Will probably be attention-grabbing.”
Cricket’s solely earlier look on the Olympics was at Paris 1900.
On that event, Nice Britain gained by 158 runs towards France in a one-off remaining, after the Netherlands and Belgium withdrew.
The BOA mentioned in August it hopes to enter a males’s soccer group into the 2028 Video games, uniting the England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Eire Soccer Associations to subject a primary Crew GB males’s Olympic aspect since London 2012.
England had been the nominated nation to aim to qualify on behalf of Crew GB for the ladies’s soccer competitors on the Paris 2024 Video games, however they fell quick of their Nations League marketing campaign.
