"If you bowl as fast as you run, you already have a place reserved in our team"- RCB tweets to Yohan Blake

The Indian Premier League is the biggest franchise-based tournament in the world. It is a tournament that not only transcends the boundaries when it comes to caste, creed, culture, nationality but also sports. And, the latest example of it was truly evident when Jamaica’s Olympic medal-winning sprinter- Yohan Blake expressed his desire of featuring in an Indian Premier League franchise after the champion athlete finishes his career in Athletics.

Blake, who is widely hailed as the second-fastest sprinter on the planet after Usain Bolt is currently in India and expressed his desire while promoting the upcoming Road Safety World Series. Road Safety World Series is a tournament created with an aim to promote safety awareness and will comprise of retired cricketers like Sachin Tendulkar, Jonty Rhodes, Brett Lee, Brian Lara and a plethora of other retired cricketers from countries like India, South Africa, Australia, West Indies, and Sri Lanka.

The Olympic-medal winner who wishes to play franchise cricket after he is done with athletics singled out his two favorite franchises for whom he’ll like to turn out- Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders. And, today, the RCB social media team posted a tweet mentioning Yohan Blake that if his bowling is as fast as his running then his place is locked in their squad. The RCB Twitter handed said, “We heard you’re interested, 

@YohanBlake. If you bowl as fast as you run, you already have a place reserved in our team. 🙌😎”

We heard you're interested, @YohanBlake. If you bowl as fast as you run, you already have a place reserved in our team. 🙌😎

— Royal Challengers (@RCBTweets) December 7, 2019

Yohan Blake had given his reason behind choosing RCB and KKR

Even though Blake wants to be involved in cricket, he does not want to play for the West Indies. The champion athlete also gave the reason behind singling out RCB and KKR as his favorite franchises. Apart from the fact that Chris Gayle has featured for both the franchises, Blake is a huge fan of Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers.

“I have two more years left in track and field and then its cricket for me. But, I do not wish to play for the West Indies. I would love to feature in franchise cricket; I would even love to own a franchise in India. And most importantly, play for either Kolkata Knight Riders or the Royal Challengers Bangalore. Chris Gayle [fellow Jamaican] was there for a long time. I love the Bangalore team especially Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers. Also, the Kolkata team, because Gayle has played for them too,”  Yohan Blake had said as quoted by mid-day.

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