Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar has called for cricket to become an Olympic sport. The former Indian captain and sport’s all-time leading run-scorer feels the Twenty20 format would work best in the Summer Games.

Cricket has not featured in the Olympics since 1900, when Great Britain took on France in Paris, but the sport’s governing body, International Cricket Council, is meeting the International Olympic Committee next month to discuss a possible bid. The ICC has resisted attempts to include cricket in the Games in the past over fears that it might dilute existing competitions.

In July, the Marylebone Cricket Club’s (MCC) World Cricket Committee called for Twenty20 to be included in the 2024 summer Games. Following its board meeting in October, the ICC announced that chief executive David Richardson and director Giles Clarke would hold talks with the IOC in November.

Did you Know???

• Recently Coca-cola India signs Sourav Ganguly for 3-years as social ambassador
• Digital payment solution firm Oxigen ropes in Sachin Tendulkar as its brand ambassador.
• German sportswear major Adidas roped in cricketer Rohit Sharma to endorse its products.
• South African batsman AB de Villiers was roped in as the brand ambassador of tyre manufacturing giants MRF Limited.
• Virat Kohli was named ICC 2015 World Cup’s ambassador along Australian fast-bowler Mitchell Johnson, New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum, Sri Lanka’s former captain Kumar Sangakkara and Australia’s Shane Watson.
• In a recent list titled ‘Fab 40’ by the Forbes magazine, Dhoni comes fifth in the top-10 most valuable sports athlete brand, higher than world’s fastest man and multiple-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt and Real Madrid’s footballing superstar Cristiano Ronaldo.