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A Historic Milestone: Cricket Returns to the Olympics after 128 Years with Australia’s Promising Prospects – By Cricket Australia Source : Cricket Australia Linkedin For the first time in 128 years, Australia’s cricketers will get the chance to compete for gold at the Olympics 🥇🙌 Cricket Australia CEO Nick Hockley: “This is a game-changer for our sport that is already among the fastest growing in the world. “We look forward to working with the Australian Olympic Committee in the lead-up to the Los Angeles Games and are hopeful this will be the start of a long-standing relationship between cricket and the Olympics, including for Brisbane 2032″ ...

Oct 17, 2023 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , , , ,
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Aussies bask in golden glow of cricket’s new ‘trifecta’ – By Laura Jolly Source : cricket.com. Commonwealth Games gold the icing on the cake for an incredible team that already has the T20 and ODI World Cups in a bursting trophy cabinet Megan Schutt ranks Australia’s Commonwealth Games gold-winning victory as one of the best of her career, saying the reality of what the team had achieved at Edgbaston was only just starting to sink in. Australia’s cricketers narrowly missed out on the honour of claiming the country’s 1000th Games gold – that moment went to the netball Diamonds a little over an hour later – but win No.999 was just as sweet for the 29-year-old pace bowler. But Meg Lanning’s team can now lay claim to women’s cricket’s new ‘trifecta’, as holders of both the ODI and T20 World Cups and now, Commonwealth Games gold medallists. “It’s absolutely special,” Schutt ...

Aug 9, 2022 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , ,
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