Cricket
Mumbai (AFP) - Cricket's more than 100-year Olympic exile moved closer to ending after the sport was approved for inclusion at the 2028 Los Angeles Games by the International Olympic Committee's executive board. IOC president Thomas Bach, speaking after Friday's second day of an executive board meeting in Mumbai, said officials had accepted a proposal by LA organisers for Twenty20 cricket to be included as one of five new sports together with baseball/softball, flag football (non-contact American football), squash and lacrosse. But the final choice of which sports are on the 2028 programme wil...
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Staten Island (United States) (AFP) - Baseball is America's national pastime, but in New York, a cricket club is celebrating 150 years not out thanks to the city's large immigrant communities. Staten Island Cricket Club (SICC) is the oldest continuously active cricket club in the United States, with matches played there every year since it was founded in 1872 by British armed forces officers and Wall Street traders. Along the way, it has hosted some of the game's greats, including Don Bradman, Geoffrey Boycott and Garry Sobers. "There's plenty to be proud of in a non-cricket-playing country to...
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