Discussions are happening concerning the formation of a Nice Britain cricket workforce 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 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 now have a very good working relationship with the ECB, so we’ve got 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 workforce 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 fascinating, the six groups for us, we’d have a chance via the GB idea,” Lindblade stated.
Collaborating groups will have the ability to area squads of as much as 15 gamers, however the qualification course of has not but been confirmed.
“There’s so much to come back by way of how qualification takes place, not only for these six groups however how – if a GB workforce had been to qualify – we’ve got 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 fascinating.”
Cricket’s solely earlier look on the Olympics was at Paris 1900.
On that event, Nice Britain gained by 158 runs in opposition to France in a one-off closing, after the Netherlands and Belgium withdrew.
The BOA stated in August it hopes to enter a males’s soccer workforce into the 2028 Video games, uniting the England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Eire Soccer Associations to area a primary Workforce GB males’s Olympic aspect since London 2012.
England had been the nominated nation to aim to qualify on behalf of Workforce GB for the ladies’s soccer competitors on the Paris 2024 Video games, however they fell quick of their Nations League marketing campaign.
