India batter Virat Kohli has dominated out a T20 worldwide comeback on the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028.
Cricket will return to the Olympics for the primary time since 1900 on the Video games in LA as one among 5 new sports activities.
The Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) has stated the event will likely be a T20 occasion however has but to verify how groups will qualify.
Nonetheless, organisers have been eager to utilise cricket as a strategy to improve India’s curiosity within the Olympics given the industrial alternatives, and their participation would appear extraordinarily doubtless.
Kohli retired from T20 obligation with India after they gained the World Cup in 2024, however will proceed to play the format domestically within the Indian Premier League (IPL).
The 36-year-old stated at a sports activities summit together with his IPL franchise Royal Challengers Bengaluru that cricket on the Olympics was a “nice alternative for a few of our guys”.
However when requested if he could possibly be coaxed out of retirement to play at LA 2028 Kohli stated “no”, although he joked that if India have been taking part in for the gold medal he “could come again for one recreation, get a medal and are available again residence”.
Kohli performed 125 T20s for India, scoring 4,188 runs at a median of 48.69, hitting one century and 38 half-centuries.
