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ICC Steers Clear of Olympic Bid

12 January 2009

It was thought to be the prefect slogan for all-out campaigning - Twenty20 in 2020! - but the International Cricket Council (ICC) has no plans to bid for Twenty20 to become part of the 2020 Olympic Games.

ICC was given full recognition by the IOC Executive Board in December 2009. This implies that cricket would now be eligible to feature on the Sports Programme of the Games of the Olympiad in 2020.

Twenty20, a faced paced format of the game introduced in England in 2003, has proved immensely popular across the world. The Indian Premier League (IPL), a competition set up in 2008 for Twenty20, is considered one of the biggest, most financially lucrative sporting events in the world. Despite the success of the new and abridged cricket format leading to calls from top players - such as Australian captain Adam Gilchrist - to ask for it to be introduced to the Olympic Programme for 2020, the ICC presently rules out such a move.

A recent statement to insidethegames reads:

Cricket [first] became a recognised sport within the Olympic Movement in 2007 and we are very pleased that the ICC holds such a globally recognisable status. We are delighted to be involved in the IOC and it brings significant benefits for many of our members.

However, at this stage, there are no plans to apply for cricket’s return to the programme of events.

Cricket was part of the 1900 Olympics in Paris, when a team from Devon and Somerset Wanderers, representing Britain, beat the French Athletic Club Union in a 12-a-side, one-day, two innings-a-team match. However, with the match billed as part of the 1900 Universal Exposition, neither side appeared to realise they were competing in the Olympics. In fact, it was only retrospectively recognised as being an Olympic contest in 1912, when the IOC met to compile the definitive list of all events in the five modern Olympiads up to that point.

Cricket has never appeared in the Olympic Games since but is due to be part of the programme at this year’s Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, and it has featured in the Commonwealth Games as recently as 1998.

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