Cricket in Asian Games

Cricket is to be included as a sport in the South Asian Games. The 2010 South Asian games will be held in Dhaka next year and cricket will be included as a sport, said a regional Olympic official.

"India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal have already agreed to participate in cricket," Kutubuddin Ahmed, secretary-general of the Bangladesh Olympic Association, told Reuters after a meeting in Kathmandu on Monday

A Twenty20 competition at under-21 level would feature in the games for the eight-nation grouping, to be staged from January 29 to February 9 next year, he added.

This is a major boost to the ICC which is lobbying to include cricket in the Olympic games.

-C.K