partner with the Los Angeles 2028 Summer Olympics,” Pomona Mayor Tim Sandoval is quoted as saying in the Fairplex news release. “This is a huge honor for our city. We look forward to welcoming athletes and spectators from all over the world.”

This time around, cricket will be played in the Twenty20 (or “T20”) format, the shortest and fastest-paced of the three common formats of the game. T20 matches typically last between three and 3 1/2hours.

Six nations will field 15-member teams in both the men’s and women’s competitions, according to the International Cricket Council. The full tournament schedule has not yet been announced.

Although less prominent in the United States, cricket is incredibly popular worldwide, especially in India, Pakistan and the rest of Asia. A half-billion viewers watched India and Sri Lanka compete in the final for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in 2011. In contrast, Super Bowl LIX in February was the most-watched NFL game ever with an audience of 127.7 million, less than a quarter of the T20 World Cup audience more than a decade earlier. Only soccer is more popular than cricket around the world, counting roughly half the people on Earth as fans.