Rahul Dravid supports inclusion of T20 cricket in Olympic sport
New Delhi: Former India cricketer Rahul Dravid has backed T20 cricket to turn out to be an Olympic sport saying that he’s all for the growth of the sport. Manoj Badale, lead proprietor of the IPL franchise Rajasthan Royals in affiliation with Simon Hughes on Friday introduced the launch of their new e-book, `A New Innings`.
The e-book was launched via a digital seminar and Dravid additionally took half within the seminar. “I think it will be great if the T20 format of the game can become an Olympic sport. Obviously, it will come with its challenges.Also, cricket is a game that requires a certain kind of facility for it to be successful,” Dravid mentioned in the course of the digital seminar.
“We have seen in the just-concluded IPL, the success of IPL was on large part due to the quality of wickets… if you can get all of that right and get the facilities in place then why not. I am certainly for the expansion of the T20 game. If it is possible, cricket should endeavor to try and get into the Olympics,” he added.
Mumbai Indians received the recently-concluded 13th version of the IPL after defeating Delhi Capitals within the last on the Dubai International Stadium. With this victory, Mumbai Indians claimed their fifth IPL title.
The franchise had earlier received the match in 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2019.Commenting on what makes the franchise so profitable within the match, Dravid mentioned that Mumbai Indians have a extremely good mixture of skilled and younger gifted gamers.
“I think what they have done really well over the last 4-5 years is that they have maintained a really strong core of really high-quality players and mixed that up with identifying some really good young talented players,” he mentioned. “… that has really been the key, their ability to maintain a core of very experienced senior players, obviously world-class T20 players, and the critical thing is that then balancing that out with young exciting Indian talent. And they have been able to do that exceptionally well,” Dravid added.
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