Cricket at the 2028 Summer Olympics

Cricket will be reintroduced in 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, United States. It will be the 2nd edition of the Olympic cricket tournament. Cricket was last played in Summer Olympics in 1900. It is expected to be a Twenty20 tournament for both men and women.

Background
Cricket has had a history in the early Olympics. In the first modern Olympics in 1896 in Athens it was planned that cricket would be played as a medal sport but due to a lack of entries, the planned event did not occur. In 1900 in Paris, four teams entered: Great Britain (listed as England in posters advertising it and represented by Devon & Somerset Wanderers), France, Belgium and the Netherlands. However, only one match was played between Great Britain and France with Great Britain winning the two day match. The players did not realise this was an Olympic event until it was retrospectively recognized as one in 1912. Cricket was omitted from the Olympics at the 1904 Games and not considered for inclusion in the decades following.

For a large number of years, many of cricket's governing bodies, including the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), were long opposed to a return to the Olympics. The ECB withdrew their opposition in 2015, and in March 2017, it was reported that International Cricket Council chief Dave Richardson thought the "time is right" for Olympic cricket. It was also reported that the opposition of the BCCI had softened.

In October 2020, USA Cricket stated that it saw a proposed inclusion of cricket in the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles as a long-term goal. In 2020, the BCCI in its Annual General Meeting decided to back the ICC's bid for inclusion of T20 cricket in 2028 after getting some clarifications from the International Olympic Committee. In August 2021, the ICC confirmed its plans to bid for the inclusion of cricket at the Olympics, starting with the 2028 and 2032 games.

On October 9, 2023, the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee announced that cricket was on the list of sports they wished to introduce. On October 13, 2023, the IOC announced that the bid was accepted and placed under voting to finalize its inclusion in 2028 during the 141st IOC Session in Mumbai between October 14 to 16, 2023. It was confirmed on October 16, 2023 that cricket would be featured in the 2028 Olympics as only two voted against inclusion, including both men's and women's T20 tournaments.