MCC World Cricket Committee chairman Mike Gatting said cricket could well be part of the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. 

Gatting added the ICC is working really hard to ensure fulfilment of its long-time ambition. 

One major hurdle towards the goal was also crossed recently as the BCCI came under the ambit of National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA), an affiliate of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). 

It is mandatory for all sporting federations’ doping policy to be overseen by the premier body.

Gatting informed that the new ICC CEO Manu Sawhney told the MCC’s Cricket Committee that progress had been made to ensure cricket's inclusion at the quadrennial event. 

"We were talking with Manu Sawhney the ICC chief executive, and he was very hopeful we can get cricket into the 2028 Olympics," the former England Test player was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo.

"That’s what they’re working towards at the moment and that would be a huge bonus for cricket worldwide, it would be fantastic."

Gatting further reckons there will be only a minor change in the existing schedule of various ICC member nations if the sport joins Olympics. 

"It’s two weeks, that’s a good thing about it, it’s not a month, so it’s one of those (events) where scheduling for two weeks should be fine once every four years once you do the first one."

"You’re going to have – one hopes – a four-year period, once you know you’ve been accepted into the Olympics, that gives you a chance to actually shape your two weeks, so it’s not as if it is butted into the schedule," he added. 

"I think the next 18 months will be very interesting as to how we do that. One of the problems has been negated, where the BCCI is now working with NADA, the drugs agency, which it wasn’t previously a part of."

"That will help a long way towards the sport being whole, which is what we need it to be to apply for the Olympics, both men and women to play and all countries to comply," Gatting concluded. 

(Inputs from ESPNcricinfo)