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Spring legend Usain Bolt claimed that he will be ready to play cricket if called on by the Jamaican team.

Bolt, who aspired to become a fast bowler once, was suggested by his high school cricket coach to test himself in the track and field events which led to the birth of an athletics legend. (Reuters Photo)Bolt, who aspired to become a fast bowler once, was suggested by his high school cricket coach to test himself in the track and field events which led to the birth of an athletics legend. (Reuters Photo)

Usain Bolt cemented his legacy as the greatest sprinter on the planet and the fastest man in the world with a cabinet full of Olympic medals.

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The Jamaican legend might return back to the marquee sporting event but in a different sport.

Bolt, who aspired to become a fast bowler once, was suggested by his high school cricket coach to test himself in the track and field events which led to the birth of an athletics legend.

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However, the Jamaican legend hasn’t ruled out the possibility of a return to active sports in his first sport.

Cricket is back at the LA Olympics after 128 years, and a Jamaican squad will be taking part in the event. Bolt claimed that he will be ready to play cricket if called on by the Jamaican team.

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Talking to Esquire on the eve of the Doha Marathon, Bolt said, “I am happily retired from professional sport. I haven’t played cricket in a long time but if they call, I will be ready.”

Earlier in a promotional event in India, Bolt had told the Indian publications that if he hadn’t become a sprinter, he would have been a cricketer.

“A cricketer for sure. Yeah, I think if my cricket coach hadn’t said, ‘You know what, go try running,’ I probably would have stuck with cricket, because my dad was a massive cricket fan and that’s all I knew growing up. Cricket, a little bit of football, but all I knew was cricket,” he had told PTI back in October.

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Bolt said his coach had advised him to try sprinting. “Well, for me, it was my cricket coach. I was a fast bowler, and my cricket coach kind of saw me running in and he said, ‘You know what, why not try track and field?’ And I tried, and I was really good. I was pretty talented, and that’s something that I just continued.”

The eight-time Olympic gold medallist, who still enjoys being called the ‘World’s Fastest Man’, retired from the track almost a decade ago.

The 39-year-old sprinting icon remains a world record holder for Jamaica in 100 metres, 200 metres and 4×100 metres.

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His times in the two former events, 9.58 and 19.19 seconds respectively, have remained unrivalled by the next generation.

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