A top Commonwealth Games official today said the sports body will attempt to convince the International Cricket Council (ICC) to include Twenty20 cricket in future Games editions.
“We need to engage the ICC to include cricket as we want to sustain the Games as one of the world’s leading multi-sport events,” Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) sports review committee chairman Tunku Imran told AFP.
But Tunku Imran admitted that it would be an uphill task to get the ICC to agree to their request.
“If the ICC agrees, we could have the sport in the 2018 Commonwealth Games. But it is not going to be easy,” he said.
Cricket was played during the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Malaysia but was dropped in subsequent Games due to difficulties in coming to an acceptable format between the CGF and ICC.