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Evergreen New Zealand: Evergreen New Zealand batter Suzie Bates has admitted she would love to prolong her career and represent her country at the Olympics for a second time when cricket makes its long-awaited return at Los Angeles in 2028.

Bates was part of New Zealand's basketball team that went to the Beijing Games in 2008 and the 36-year-old has not given up hope of still being around in 2028 and making it to a second Olympics - though this time as a cricketer, reports ICC.

The star right-hander is already New Zealand's highest women's ODI run-scorer of all time and her ICC Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year award from 2013 is one of many accolades Bates has collected over her storied career.