LA 2028 Olympics: Cricket to be hosted at Fairgrounds in Pomona, Southern California

Cricket will return to the Olympic fold at the LA 2028 Games after 128 years. And the venue hosting the sport in three years time will be the Fairgrounds in Pomona, South California, the organisers of the 2028 Games announced on Tuesday. Cricket will be played in the T20 format, which has previously featured in multi-sport events, with both men’s and women’s competitions held at the Asian Games in 2010, 2014 and 2023. The 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham featured a women’s T20 tournament.

“We welcome the announcement of the venue for cricket at Los Angeles 2028 as it is a significant step towards the preparation for our sport’s return to the Olympics,” ICC Chair Jay Shah said. “Although cricket is a hugely popular sport, it will be a fantastic opportunity to expand traditional boundaries when it features in the Olympics in the fast-paced, exciting T20 format that should appeal to new audiences. On behalf of the ICC, I want to express my gratitude to LA28 and the International Olympic Committee for their support and look forward to collaborating with them and ICC Members in preparing for LA28 and making cricket a huge success there.”

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The LA Olympics will see both the men’s and women’s T20 competitions feature six teams each, with a 90-player quota allocated per gender, allowing each nation to field a squad of up to 15 players. This was confirmed by the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on April 9.

The full tournament schedule for cricket at LA 2028 will be finalised closer to the start of the Games.

Cricket’s return to the Olympics fold after 128 years was confirmed in October 2023, alongside the inclusion of five additional sports for the Los Angeles Games: baseball/softball, flag football, lacrosse (sixes) and squash.