{"id":793232,"date":"2026-07-11T09:25:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T09:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/793232\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T09:25:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T09:25:26","slug":"olympic-cricket-los-angeles-2028-event-guide-venue-how-to-watch-daily-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/793232\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic cricket: Los Angeles 2028 event guide, venue, how to watch, daily schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overview<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Cricket\u2019s lone appearance at the Summer Olympics came in 1900, the second ever modern iteration of the Games. 128 years later, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcolympics.com\/news\/what-are-new-olympic-sports-and-events-2028-los-angeles-games\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the sport will officially return<\/a> to the world stage.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Contested on an oval, grass-covered field, cricket features two teams of 11 players each switching off \u201cbatting\u201d and \u201cbowling\u201d (throwing), ultimately \u2014 like baseball \u2014 attempting to score more runs than their opponent.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Only the batting team can put runs on the board, which they do by hitting a ball (that was bowled) and successfully running between the wickets (wooden stumps). The bowling squad, meanwhile, tries to get batters out (aka dismissed) through a number of different methods, which includes inducing swings and misses and catching the ball on the fly.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Australia is considered a dominant cricket nation, while England and New Zealand are also countries to watch out for in L.A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overview Cricket\u2019s lone appearance at the Summer Olympics came in 1900, the second ever modern iteration of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,327461,85],"class_list":["post-793232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-olympics-101","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}