LA 2028 organisers have slated matches on the Olympic cricket event to begin at 09:00 within the morning to cater for profitable tv audiences in India.
One of many main components behind cricket’s return to the Video games after a 128-year hiatus is the need of the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) to faucet right into a profitable South Asian media rights and sponsorship market.
The six-team T20 event, that includes each males’s and ladies’s groups, will start on Wednesday, 12 July – two days earlier than the opening ceremony – with all matches staged at a venue which might be constructed on the Fairgrounds in Pomona.
There might be two video games performed day by day at Pomona – positioned 30 miles from the athletes’ village in Los Angeles – beginning at 09:00 and 18:30 Pacific Daylight Time.
These matches might be proven at 21:30 and 07:00 India Customary Time (17:00 and 02:30 British Summer season Time).
The night fixtures on the floor in Pomona might be performed underneath floodlights.
Equipment McConnell, who oversaw cricket’s return to the Video games after a 128-year hiatus because the IOC’s sports activities director, advised BBC Sport organisers thought of “core cricket markets within the subcontinent” when planning the event.
“The imaginative and prescient the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) has outlined for us is geared toward offering the most effective gamers and the most effective groups on the Olympic stage,” McConnell stated.
“There’s three years to go however now we’re very enthusiastic about the place cricket is, what it can deliver to the Video games and equally what the Olympics can supply to cricket and its international enlargement as properly.”
