KARACHI: Yohan Blake is likely to join his fellow Olympic sprinter icon Usain Bolt in Australia T20 league.
‘Sydney Sixers’ franchise has shown interest to sign the Jamaican sprinter and cricket enthusiast Blake for Australia’s domestic Twenty20 Big Bash League scheduled for December.
Sydney Sixers’ Chief Executive Stuart Clark said, “For one he is a great athlete, and yes he would be a marketer’s dream, but from all reports he can actually play cricket and that’s better than anything else.”
“If he can do what he says he can do, and I have no reason to disbelieve him, Yohan would be a marquee player for me to sign. I would definitely be considering it,” he added.
Earlier this week, Australian former leg spinner Shane Warne announced that he would run a campaign to bring Bolt to Melbourne to give him a chance to play for his club ‘Melbourne Stars’.
Meanwhile, Blake has expressed his love for the game and claimed that he is “a bowling machine”.
“You guys need to see me in action. I am a bowling machine that can bat all day. Cricket, that’s my love, that’s my passion,” media quoted him as saying.
Clark said, “I will need to see some footage of him bowling, but he has been saying he can bowl 90 miles per hour (145 kilometres per hour). Very few people in the world can do that.”
Comparing Bolt and Blake, Clark said, “Usain Bolt is a great showman and entertainer, but he can’t play cricket as far as I’m aware, to the standard necessary. Yohan Blake can, it seems.”
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