ExpandYes, you need atleast 2-3 stadiums to have any meaningful tournament. 6 team tournament would mean 15 + 15 group stage matches followed by 4 semis and 4 medal matches. 38 matches in 3 stadium would also mean each stadium hosting a game everyday for 15 days. Would require one hell of a curator team.
Aren’t you missing UK? Olympic Gold medal match at Lord’s would be quite iconic.
No. I don't think so. So many Olympic cricket golds would be iconic here but Australia and especially India and Pakistan would be much bigger.
In my opinion Cricket is only an Olympic sport if the Games are held in India or Australia.
And nowhere else.
That's why boxing and weightlifting should be worried
ExpandOnly if the IOC drops the hard athlete quota limit
I think a 6-8 team tournament might creep under the quota.
And I don't think it hurts that India pays a lot less for rights to show the Olympics than other countries of the same stature.
Olympic cricket = $$$$
Edited by DragonI think we should remember this is very likely to be an Olympic sport in this format in 10 years time.
Solid win for 
over 
Australia batting badly and suffering some bad luck...
ExpandWith ten countries arcing around from Jamaica to Guyana in South America as well as five overseas territories of the UK, Netherlands and USA it isn't easy to organise, coordinate and bring a sense of purpose to West Indies cricket.
plus
They have produced some of the greatest players to ever play the game. Barbados alone has probably produced more cricketing talent per square mile than any place on the planet. However, it isn't always easy to bring such a disparate group of players from so many different countries together towards a common goal.
West Indies have been at their best when they've had a strong captains, men like Sir Frank Worrell, Clive Lloyd and Sir Viv Richards, who have been able to create unity and provide a sense of purpose. That no longer seems to exist as players wander round the world making their earnings from the numerous T20 leagues now on offer. It is sometimes difficult to manage the players from one country as most teams have found at some stage or another, notably Pakistan, but it must be even more difficult in the unique sporting united nations that is the West Indies.
What's ?
Nerve wrecking match between 
and 
, UAE win and 
are through.
vs
beat 
Ireland beat 
Everyone level on points
On the run rate tiebreaker it looks like this
Scotland +0.75
Zimbabwe 0
West Indies -0.27
Ireland -O.48
This is the beauty of Totallympics.
I can talk to people from the Netherlands or Iran about cricket, Greeks about Rugby League and ask questions about Volleyball to Serbs or Handball to people from Denmark
Edited by Dragontypo
Results so far in the preliminary groups
beat
create a big shock by beating 
and the biggest shock comes when defeat the 2012 and 2016 champions
ExpandLive cricket returns to our screens next week with a T10 tournament played in the well-known cricket hotbed of Stockholm.
On Freesports in the UK, streaming in all less fortunate countries.
A glimpse at the names of the players reveals that.....errrm, shall we say...ethnic Swedes are still as indifferent to cricket as they have been at any time over the last two centuries.
You obviously missed the Finnish Premier League matches livestreamed on youtube last week... 
Romania Cup day 2
278-4 (equals world record for highest score in international 20/20 cricket)
beat
21 all out (lowest score ever recorded in international 20/20 cricket)
by 257 runs (record victory in international 20/20 cricket)
ExpandYou my sir, haven’t viewed Pacific Games Cricket results
. I believe, but could be wrong, that some countries lost worse there
New Caledonia, who recieved those massive defeats, are not a member of the ICC so don't count towards records
First day of the Romania Cup 20-20 tournament and 2 world records
226-6 beat 53 all out. A record 173 run victory
then
28 all out lost to 
29-2. 28 is the lowest score ever recorded in this form of international cricket
So this is an astonishing 20 over international
Women
314/2 beat 
10 all out
DAY TWENTY ONE
241-6 van der Dussen 67
lost to
245-6 Williamson 106
DAY TWENTY
397-6 Morgan 148 Bairstow 90
beat
247-8 Hashmatullah 74
DAY NINETEEN
321-8 Hope 96 Lewis 70
lost to
322-3 Shakib 148* Das 94*
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For my part, I don't expect cricket to ever be a permanent part of the Olympic schedule but when certain countries host the Games (Australia, India and possibly the UK or South Africa) and have suitable cricket stadiums that can be used there are financial and other reasons why it could be included.
The quota argument is a good argument against cricket but actually a better one against baseball and softball where the squad sizes are so much bigger.
I think 2 cricket tournaments of 8 teams would take up around 240 quota, about the same as baseball/softball in 2021.
You could even cut it down to 2 6 team tournaments with 14 players on each roster (168 quota)
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