Like Bolt, Blake is from Jamaica and the cricket crazy, and Sixers CEO Stuart Clark said he was interested in creating a confrontation between two world's fastest men in the field of cricket.
"For he's a great athlete, and yes it would be a marketer's dream, but from all reports that you can actually play cricket and that's better than anything else," Clark told the Sydney Daily Telegraph.
"If he can do what he says he can do, and I have no reason to disbelieve him, Yohan would be a branded player for me to sign. No doubt it is considering."
Earlier this week, Shane Warne revealed he was leading a campaign to bring Bolt to Melbourne, with negotiations underway with the stars of Melbourne, the Australian trial of his former club, the leg-spinners.
Secondary Bolt played cricket before turning to the track and has long expressed his love for the game.
"He (Warne) contacted me and asked me whether I am serious and if you really want to, then he can put in a few words to get it done," Bolt told Australian television.
"So let's see if I get free time. I'll try."
Cricket is very popular in the West Indies in Jamaica, with one of its strongest teams, producing large and Frank Worrell, Michael Holding, Courtney Walsh and Chris Gayle.
According to the Telegraph, Blake has recently expressed his desire to play cricket, listing as his first love over athletics.
"I need to see some footage of him bowling, but he has been saying he can dish out at 90 miles per hour (145 kph), very few people in the world can do that," said Clark.
"Usain Bolt is a great showman and actor, but he can not play cricket as far as I know, the level needed. Yohan Blake can, it seems."
The newspaper said agent Tony Connelly Australia was the negotiation of an agreement between Blake and the eight-team Big Bash, which was launched last year to attract new young audiences to cricket.
The season starts on 7 December with the final on January 19.
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