Cricket will return to the next Asian Games at Hangzhou 2022, Olympic Council of Asia says
England's Jonny Bairstow runs out West Indies' Shimron Hetmyer during West Indies-England Test match at the Darren Sammy National Cricket Stadium, St Lucia - February 12, 2019.
Cricket has struggled to grow beyond its traditional bases and was last played at the Olympics in the 1900 Paris Games. Cricket was, however dropped for the Games in Jakarta-Palembang last year but was added back for Hangzhou at the OCA general assembly in Bangkok, where Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah was re-elected president of the OCA unopposed for an eighth term. Cricket made its maiden appearance in the Commonwealth Games in 1998 when the South African men’s team won the gold medal in Kuala Lumpur but has not featured in the quadrennial competition since then.
Singh, who has been appointed as the chairman of the coordination committee for the Asian Games, said he visited Hangzhou last month to see venue options to host cricket. The International Olympic Committee is open to cricket’s inclusion provided all top teams compete but the Indian cricket board , the game’s richest and most influential, has been rather reluctant.
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