Cricket's only appearance as part of an Olympic Games will be recalled later this month when teams from France and Britain meet to reprise a match that took place in Paris 112 years ago.
France Cricket (FC), the national governing body for the sport, will field a side against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in Twenty20 and 50-over-a-side matches at Chateaux du Thoiry on June 16 to help raise awareness of the sport within the country.
In an Olympic year, the matches will also be a reminder of one of the more unusual episodes in the history of the Games.
The 1900 contest, which took place at the Velodrome de Vincennes, featured a British side from the south west of England -- the Devon Country Wanderers -- and a French line-up made up of players from the Standard Athletic Club and the Albion Cricket Club in Paris.
The match was 12-a-side and the majority of France's team were expatriate players, many of them born in England. Britain won the game by 158 runs, with totals of 117 and 145-5 declared easily outstripping France’s scores of 78 and 26.