3 min learnJun 29, 2026 07:10 PM IST
The Indian ladies’s cricket staff have certified for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics whereas the lads’s staff will seemingly undergo because of their T20I rating because the Worldwide Cricket Council unveiled the qulification path to the Video games on Monday. It will likely be the primary time since 1900 that the game will probably be performed on the Olympics, and the primary time ever that girls’s cricket will make an look.
The T20I format will probably be used on the Olympics, with six nations competing for the rostrum locations. 5 of them are to be determined by the ICC T20I rankings for males and thru rankings within the ongoing 2026 Girls’s T20 World Cup for ladies. In the meantime, the West Indies, who gained the ladies’s T20 World Cup in 2016 and the lads’s event in 2014 and 2016,
The Indian males’s staff, the defending T20 World Cup champions, are the top-ranked facet, naturally making them the best ranked staff of their continent – Asia, which is the minimal standards for automated qualification.
The Indian ladies’s staff’s T20 World Cup marketing campaign ended within the group stage however they’re the best positioned staff within the event from Asia. “The continued ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup 2026 has confirmed the primary members for LA28, with Australia, Nice Britain (through England), India and South Africa qualifying because the highest-placed groups from Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania,” stated the ICC.
“For the Males’s competitors, 5 of the six nations will probably be determined by ICC Males’s T20I rankings, with the highest-ranked eligible groups from Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania on 31 December 2026 progressing to LA28, offered they’re within the top-15 of the rankings.”
America of America, because the host nation, are eligible for automated qualification in each males’s and girls’s occasions if they continue to be throughout the prime 15 of the rankings on the December 31 cut-off.
“On the ladies’s facet, ought to the USA ladies’s staff not meet that standards, a fifth automated qualification spot will probably be awarded to the highest-placed non-qualified nation within the ICC T20I rankings from any continent as of 1 March 2027.
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“If the USA males’s staff don’t meet that standards, the fifth automated qualification spot will probably be allotted to the next-highest-ranked nation from any continent that has not already certified by 31 December 2026,” stated the ICC.
Cricket’s world governing physique additionally introduced a first-ever ICC Olympics Qualifier for the one remaining spot within the males’s and girls’s occasions. “Six nations will compete in every of the Males’s and Girls’s T20 competitions, with all matches to be performed on the purpose-built cricket venue in Pomona,” it stated.
In the meantime, whereas the West Indies are ineligible to take part, the ICC stated that it’s going to host a “devoted Caribbean Qualifier occasion to find out which NOC will symbolize the area on the ICC Olympics Qualifier” if they’re among the many eight highest-ranked groups not but certified by December 31.