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    February 03, 2023, 10:22:57 PM
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    Most of the team sports in Olympics have either 12 or 16 participants. For football, it is 16 (with almost 200 countries participating in the qualifier tournament), while for other sports such as basketball, field hockey and volleyball it is 12. IMO, 12 should be a good number for cricket, for both the men's and women's tournaments. And the IOC has ruled out T10 format, because they want a format which is played regularly. But then, a normal T20 game takes at least 3 to 3.5 hours to get completed.

    The main issue with the bid from ICC is that they don't have any qualifying tournament. They want teams to be selected on the basis of ICC ranking, which is biased towards the full members. IOC wants a fair pathway for all the competing nations and they will definitely shoot down this obscene proposal from the ICC. And perhaps this is exactly what the ICC want.

    Its still not finalized by IOC that whether or not cricket is included in 2028 LA Olympics (final decision expected in Oct this year). You are talking about 12 teams but ICC has proposed six-team T20 events for both men and women for 2028 LA Olympics. Its a great move by ICC to take cricket to biggest sporting event after giving a delay of many decades.
    Cricket biggest problem is very limited number of test teams and new countries are not joining in. Reason is not clear that why new teams are not coming in this sports.
    ICC proposing 6 teams is a way to keep the Olympic matches not that interesting. More the teams more will be the interest in watching it. ICC might've felt of losing importance of different tournaments and leagues. Cricket is played on different countries, but they doesn't make themselves into the next levels. In recent years it is Netherlands, Ireland that have made good progress. Not much teams into test format cricket, because huge funding is required.

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