Cricket's return to the Olympic fold after a 128 year gap will see six teams for both men and women compete for gold in Los Angeles in 2028, the ICC have announced.

Cricket is one of five new or returning sports for the games alongside baseball/softball, flag football, lacrosse and squash.

Cricket has appeared at the Olympics once before, at the 1900 Games in Paris. Four teams entered but Belgium and the Netherlands pulled out at the last minute to leave Great Britain - in reality a club side called the Devon and Somerset Wanderers - and France - in reality a French club side made up almost entirely of English expatriates living in Paris - to contest the final.

The "Great Britain" cricket team at the 1900 Olympics

The two-day match was won by "Great Britain" by a margin of 158 runs and that ended cricket's Olympic run until now. An attempt was made to organise a cricket tournament as part of the 1904 Olympics in St Louis, with Philadelphia going as far as selecting a team, but the tournament never took place.

Cricket has been played twice at the Commonwealth Games - a men's tournament in Kuala Lumpur in 1998 and a women's tournament in Birmingham in 2022, three times at the Asian Games since 2010, once at the African Games and several times at the Pacific Games since 1979.

Details on qualification and if USA will get a spot as hosts are yet to be announced, as are how the West Indies - which compete separately (or as part of other countries teams) at the Olympics - will be dealt with. The England and Wales Cricket Board held preliminary talks with Cricket Scotland last year on arrangements for a potential Great Britain team.