The MCC World Cricket committee are backing the inclusion of Twenty20 cricket at the 2024 Olympic Games, believing it could lead to “a potential boost” in the profile of the sport.

Cricket would have to apply to be on the programme for future Olympics, but has got through the first stage of selection having received full Olympic recognition in 2010.

The earliest the International Cricket Council can apply to be part of the Olympics is for the 2024 Games.

Only once before has cricket appeared in the Olympic Games – in 1900, when Britain were beaten by France, while there was also a cricket tournament at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.