“Coming from the Caribbean the place cricket is part of life, the game has all the time held a particular place in my coronary heart, and I’m honoured to be a part of such a prestigious event,” Bolt, who grew up taking part in cricket in his native Jamaica, mentioned in an ICC assertion. “I sit up for bringing my vitality and enthusiasm to the World Cup and contributing to the expansion of cricket globally.”
Bolt mentioned he expects “dancing, music and excessive vitality” within the matches within the Caribbean, and in addition for the World Cup to go a good distance in direction of making the USA an even bigger cricket centre than it at present is.
“America believes so much in sport and excessive depth and for me to get into that market is huge,” Bolt mentioned. “After they observe a sport, they observe a sport correctly and so they go all in and I really feel like if they’ll crack into it, they are going to get into it the best method. If we deliver vitality like I do know we’ll for the T20 [World Cup] it’ll be great.”
“In case you take heed to NBA gamers and the way in which they discuss successful a gold medal, they’ve received NBA titles, they’ve their rings, however they’re like ‘we went to the Olympics’,” Bolt mentioned. “That’s how huge getting a gold medal is. Each sport tries to get into the Olympics as a result of it’s such an enormous factor and it’s such an excellent feeling to be on a podium successful that gold medal.”
