ECB to push for cricket to be included in Olympics
Monday 19 October 2015 09:12, UK
Colin Graves hopes to persuade the England and Wales Cricket Board to support cricket's inclusion as an Olympic sport when it meets next month.
Graves' predecessor as ECB chairman, Giles Clarke, was reported to have shown a distinct reticence towards pushing the sport towards a Games, fearing the impact England's participation every four years would have on an already tightly-packed summer schedule.
While Graves was reluctant to discuss whether Tests, one-day internationals or Twenty20s would be best suited to an Olympics, the Yorkshireman told Cricinfo: "I think it should be an Olympic sport in one format or another.
"It's extending the sport throughout a number of countries. Associates, and everybody, could play in the Olympics. I will be asking the board to support it.
"I'm not saying T20 is the way to do it - I don't know. Somebody might come up with something entirely different - a 10-over competition, who knows?
"It's fitting it in to the schedule and the grounds, wherever the Olympics are held."
He added: "I don't want to look back at the Giles Clarke regime - I'm looking at the Colin Graves regime. The way I do things, the way I run the board, the way I run the ECB is different and basically everything's on the table for discussion. Everything."
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