International Cricket Council (ICC) has raced its efforts to include cricket in the Olympics.
ICC has been making regular contact with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Los Angeles Olympic Games 2028's organising committee.
"IOC’s media rights income from India would go up to $130 million on a lower end of the scale and touch as much as $260 million if cricket was played at the games, the ICC has argued," a source told Hindustan Times.
"The ICC have arrived at the calculations riding on the recent bumper response from Indian broadcasters to both Indian Premier League and ICC events' media rights. 2022 is regarded as a watershed moment for cricket valuations with the IPL media rights going up by around 300 percent ( INR48390 crores from INR16347 crores for 5 years) and ICC rights becoming 400 percent more expensive in India – $3 billion for 4 years from approximately $1.5 billion for 8 years," the Indian media outlet reported.
Meanwhile, ICC's Chairman Greg Barclay said cricket fans want to see the sport in the Olympics.
"We have more than a billion fans globally and almost 90 percent of them want to see cricket at the Olympics," he said.
It must be noted here that women's cricket competitions were held for the first time in Commonwealth Games 2022.