India, March 21 -- Cricket returns to the Olympics at Los Angeles 2028 after a massive gap of 128 years. Paris 1900 was the last time cricket featured in the world's biggest sporting spectacle. And all kinds of preparations are underway. In 2024, the USA hosted some of the matches of the T20 World Cup to get their first taste of high-quality international cricket. The event saw them upset Pakistan in one of the matches, considered the biggest in the history of T20I cricket.

Now, in another big move, Los Angeles will host Major League Cricket (MLC) for the first time later this year as part of the overall Olympic preparations in the city.

What makes these matches doubly special is that this year also marks the United States of America's ...