Double Olympic silver medallist Yohan Blake could realise his dream of playing cricket at the top level as Australia's Sydney Sixers are said to be leading the race to secure his signature for the Big Bash Twenty20 competition.

According to Australian publication The Daily Telegraph at least one team is taking the athlete's pronouncements and professed love for the sport seriously.

"I want to show you that I am better at cricket than running, I am a really talented batsman. You guys need to see me in action. I am a bowling machine that can bat all day," Blake, who did a bit of fast bowling for local alma mater St Jago High School.

"Cricket, that's my love, that's my passion. When I was growing up I watched cricket with my father. I have grown up to love the sport even more than track and field. Big ups to Ricky Ponting and the Australian cricket team. I love those guys."

highly unlikely

Just a few days earlier world's fastest man Usain Bolt, who beat Blake over both the 100m and the 200m distances in London, revealed that he had been invited by spin-legend Shane Warne to try his hand at the sport in Australia, setting up a possible clash between the two, although highly unlikely with a full schedule of track and field already on their plates.

Still Sixers chief executive Stuart Clark is determined to see the Jamaican sprint star in action and make an offer if he is available and up to the required standard.

"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," Clark said.

"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.

"I will need to see some footage of him bowling, but he has been saying he can bowl 90 miles per hour (145kmh), very few people in the world can do that.

"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."