LONDON (Bloomberg) — The Olympics added cricket to its list of recognised sports, a move that might result in it being admitted to the Games for the first time since 1900.

"This is great news for cricket," Ray Mali, the president of the Dubai, United Arab Emirates-based International Cricket Council, said in an e-mailed statement. "Our goal has been to become an international federation that is recognized by the International Olympic Committee."

The earliest the sport might be added to an Olympic program is 2020 because of a cap on the number of participants in the next three Summer Games.

Paul Condon, the former London police commissioner who now chairs the ICC's anti-corruption unit that has investigated match-fixing allegations in cricket, made a presentation to the IOC in Lausanne.

Cricket was last played at the Olympics in 1900, staged in Paris, where Great Britain won the tournament by beating a French team made up mainly of staff from the British embassy.