{"id":833725,"date":"2026-07-30T15:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T15:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/833725\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T15:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T15:54:09","slug":"commonwealth-games-2026-cricket-archery-and-shooting-well-placed-to-regain-place-at-2023-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/833725\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Games 2026: Cricket, archery and shooting well placed to regain place at 2023 Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cricket’s cause is helped by the fact at least two team sports will be added for 2030. Hockey and rugby sevens would be other options.<\/p>\n

Badminton, 3×3 basketball and 3×3 wheelchair basketball, beach volleyball,\u202fcycling, diving,\u202fjudo, rhythmic gymnastics, squash, triathlon and para triathlon and wrestling are other sports under consideration.<\/p>\n

India can also propose two new sports as host nation and push others that have significance at home. No final decisions have been made.<\/p>\n

Ahmedabad will be the Commonwealth’s centenary Games and events will held in the 120,000-seater Narendra Modi Stadium<\/a>, which has hosted two cricket World Cup finals in recent years.<\/p>\n

India has also expressed a keen interest in hosting the 2036 Olympic Games, with this potentially a key step in the road.<\/p>\n

“Any sporting event will be a step towards that,” Iyer said. “We are looking purely at ensuring that these Commonwealth Games are one of the best that have been held.”<\/p>\n

The reduced programme in Glasgow has helped slash the cost of hosting the Games from around \u00a3800m to \u00a3160m.<\/p>\n

Organisers have been keen to claim this repurposed structure will be cheaper and more appealing for future hosts, but the sporting programme will rise to 17 in Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n

“17 is, we think, the right number,” Sadlier said.<\/p>\n

“The Victoria Games was 26 sports. We recognised we needed to reset and bring the Games into something that was affordable around the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n

“What we have done here has been brilliant but we will bring back a few sports. We won’t go beyond that number.”<\/p>\n

Sadlier also rejected concerns around the cut through of the Glasgow Games, given there has been no live television coverage on a major channel in the UK.<\/p>\n

“We have got more broadcast deals signed for this Games than we ever have,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Globally, the reach has been exceptional. On socials we broke the targets from Birmingham last week. It has been an amazingly covered Games.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cricket’s cause is helped by the fact at least two team sports will be added for 2030. Hockey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-833725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833725","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=833725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}