Cricket Australia targets sport’s inclusion at Brisbane Olympics in 2032 | Cricket Australia

Cricket Australia have focused the inclusion of the game on the 2032 Brisbane Olympics as a part of a strategic plan to increase participation and preserve the sport’s place on the coronary heart of the nation’s sporting tradition.

The bold The place the Recreation Grows plan launched on Monday goals to double the variety of kids aged 5 to 12 enjoying the sport to 210,000 over the subsequent 5 years, with ladies making up 60,000 of that tally.

One other of the targets is to get cricket again into the Olympics for the primary time since 1900 – if that purpose has not already been achieved on the 2028 Summer season Video games in Los Angeles.

Cricket has been shortlisted for doable inclusion on the 2028 Olympics alongside eight different sports activities and the Worldwide Cricket Council will make a presentation to organisers later this month.

The host metropolis can embody any sport however wants the approval of the Worldwide Olympic Committee.

Ladies’s Twenty20 cricket made its Commonwealth Video games debut in Birmingham final month with Australia beating India by 9 runs within the remaining to assert the inaugural gold medal.

Brisbane has plans to rebuild town’s Gabba cricket floor as a 50,000-seater Olympic Stadium to host the opening and shutting ceremonies of the 2032 Video games.

The inclusion of cricket within the 2032 Olympics and Paralympics is a part of the “sustainable future” strand of the plan, which additionally goals to enhance fan expertise, increase the grassroots and proceed Australia’s success on the world stage.

Cricket Australia has set a goal of a minimum of three ICC event triumphs over the subsequent 5 years for each the boys’s and girls’s nationwide groups.

“This technique incorporates each a imaginative and prescient and a transparent plan for the way we will obtain daring, transformative change whereas additionally assembly our core duties,” mentioned CA chief govt Nick Hockley.

“I want to thank everybody throughout the sport for his or her ardour and dedication as we work to unite and encourage everybody to like and play cricket, and in so doing make cricket a sport for all that makes Australians proud.”