MCC calls for T20 at 2024 Games

Farah unfazed by flummoxed reporter

LONDON, Feb 27, (AFP): MCC’s world cricket committee has said it would like to see Twenty20 cricket included at the 2024 Olympic Games to boost take-up of the game around the world.

Cricket is on the first rung of the ladder for inclusion at a future Games, having received full Olympic recognition in 2010, but would still have to apply to be on the programme.

Now the earliest the International Cricket Council (ICC) can apply for the sport to feature at an Olympic Games is 2024.

But following a two-day meeting in Auckland, the MCC world cricket committee said that any financial losses the game might suffer from the sport being included at an Olympics would be outweighed by extra exposure.

“The MCC world cricket committee appreciates that a great deal of effort may be needed to lobby for the inclusion of cricket in the Olympic Games of 2024,” it said in a statement.

“The committee accepts that, were ESPNDeportes.com.

An agreement won’t be final until March 7, the report said, and Ramirez has until then to sign with an MLB team.

“It will be a new experience, experience another culture while I keep doing what I love and all I’ve done in my life, playing baseball,” Ramirez told the website.

The 40-year-old Ramirez, 2004 World cricket to be played in the Olympics, there would be a short-term loss in income for the ICC, and therefore for dispersion to its members, but is impressed with the potential boost for the game worldwide if cricket were to be included.

“Furthermore, the committee advocates Twenty20 cricket as the format to be played at the Olympics, thereby providing the ‘pinnacle’ of that form of the sport.”

International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge, a noted Anglophile, has previously encouraged cricket to make its case for Games inclusion, saying in 2011: “We would welcome an application.

Also: LOS ANGELES: Double Olympic gold medallist Mo Farah appeared perplexed but kept his poise after being asked by a Series MVP, said his agents had contacted almost every American League team in need of a bat, but received no interest.

Ramirez hasn’t played in the major leagues since 2011 with the Tampa Bay Rays, when he retired rather than face a 100-game suspension for testing positive for a banned substance.

Although he’s still trying to remember New Orleans television presenter if he had ever run before.

Britain’s Farah, the 5,000 metres and 10,000 metre champ in the 2012 Summer Olympics, won the New Orleans Rock ‘n’ Roll half-marathon in record time which earned him a live interview with local WSDU television reporter LaTonya Norton.

“Now haven’t you run before?” asked Norton, who also confused the halfmarathon with the marathon. “Haven’t you run before? This isn’t your first time.”

Farah grinned and said he had competed in half-marathons previously but this was his first appearance in New Orleans.

The good-natured Somali- born Farah modestly made no mention in the Sunday interview — which provoked a spate of internet chatter — of his London gold medal heroics.

Farah won the race in a British national record time of 61 minutes, also a record for the course. to take a few pitches, the longtime Texas star was pleased to get back on the field after moving from the Rangers to their longtime AL West rivals in the offseason. He’ll only get used to the new uniforms and teammates with time, and he’s grateful to get the clock started.

“You get those first little jitters when you’re walking up to the plate, but it was a fun day,” Hamilton said.