Discussions are happening in regards to the formation of a Nice Britain cricket staff that might compete on the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Video games.
The talks between the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Cricket Scotland to determine a Workforce GB facet have begun as the game prepares to make its return to the Video games.
Cricket Scotland chief government Trudy Lindblade informed BBC Radio 4: “We’ve a very good working relationship with the ECB, so we now have been in talks with them and [we’re] within the course of of building a Workforce GB cricket entity.
“That is what’s required by the British Olympic Affiliation (BOA) for a British staff to compete on the Olympic Video games.”
The ECB has confirmed these discussions to BBC Sport.
Olympic cricket occasions at LA 2028 can 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’d have a chance by way of the GB idea,” Lindblade mentioned.
Taking part groups will be capable of discipline squads of as much as 15 gamers, however the qualification course of has not but been confirmed.
“There’s loads to return when it comes to how qualification takes place, not only for these six groups however how – if a GB staff have been to qualify – we now have choice inside that,” Lindblade added.
“So, thrilling instances, and we’ll proceed to liaise with the ECB and our colleagues at LA 2028 and ICC. It is going to 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 last, after the Netherlands and Belgium withdrew.
The BOA mentioned in August it hopes to enter a males’s soccer staff into the 2028 Video games, uniting the England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Eire Soccer Associations to discipline a primary Workforce GB males’s Olympic facet since London 2012.
England have been the nominated nation to try to qualify on behalf of Workforce GB for the ladies’s soccer competitors on the Paris 2024 Video games, however they fell brief of their Nations League marketing campaign.
