Lets hope the Twenty20 comes to England in 2012 with this and the Olympics to look forward to. It would be great for games to be played in all corners of the UK so all fans don't have far to travel to see a game. Would be a great spectacle - wasn't England '99 world cup great?“London is the historic home of cricket, a sport which espouses the Olympic ideal of fair play through the “spirit of the game” now enshrined in the official rules by MCC. Hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 provides London an ideal opportunity to showcase cricket to a much wider global audience and, in return, to increase interest the Olympic Games amongst nations that don’t engage as fully with traditional athletics.
Cricket was last played in the Olympics in 1900 when Great Britain beat France (Holland and Belgium withdrew at the last minute). The French team consisted of Britons living in Paris, reportedly mostly members of the British Embassy.
In December 2007, the International Olympic Committee gave cricket the status of a “recognized sport” after the first day of its executive committee meeting.
There are lot of fan of cricket all over the world ,and the new mode of cricket i.e Twenty20 make it more popular around the world.
There is online petition is going on to gather the views London people and fans worldwide.
You can register your vote at www.twenty20for2012.com .
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As this is a game commonly played by nations of the British Commonwealth, would it not be better to first include cricket in the commonwealth games?
Yes...This will be better to include Cricket in Commonwealth Games first.
India will be hosting Commonwealth Games in 2010...
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