Olympic legend Usain Bolt divulged as T20 World Cup 2024 diplomat

Usain Bolt, the fastest man on earth and a cricketer in his youth, has been unveiled as the ambassador of the 2024 men's T20 World Cup, to be played in the West Indies and the USA in June. "Coming from the Caribbean where cricket is a piece of life, the game has consistently held an exceptional spot in my heart, and I'm regarded to be important for a particularly renowned competition," Bolt, who grew up playing cricket in his local Jamaica, said in an ICC proclamation. "I anticipate carrying my energy and excitement to the World Cup and adding to the development of cricket universally." Bolt said he anticipates "moving, music and high energy" in the matches in the Caribbean, and furthermore for the World Cup to go quite far towards making the USA a greater cricket place than it at present is. "America trusts a great deal in game and focused energy and for me to get into that market is enormous," Bolt said. "At the point when they follow a game, they follow a game appropriately and they bet everything and I feel like in the event that they can break into it, they will get into it the correct way. In the event that we bring energy like I realize we will for the T20 [World Cup] it will be awesome." The T20 World Cup won't be the end, obviously. In 2028, cricket will get back in the saddle to the Olympic Games - it last highlighted in 1900 in Paris - in Los Angeles, with people's T20Is. "On the off chance that you stand by listening to NBA players and the manner in which they discuss winning a gold decoration, they have come out on top for NBA championships, they have their rings, yet they are like 'we went to the Olympics'," Bolt said. "That is the manner by which enormous getting a gold decoration is. Each game attempts to get into the Olympics since it is something major and it is a particularly extraordinary inclination to be on a platform winning that gold decoration."