England's limited-overs captain Eoin Morgan hailed T10 Cricket League as "brilliant" and even backed the cricket’s newest format to be a gateway for the sport’s introduction into the Olympics.

Morgan represented the Kerala Knights in the just-concluded second edition of the UAE based franchise event, saying he is a ‘huge fan’ of the format. He has now returned to South Africa from Sharjah to join the Tshwane Spartans for the ongoing Mzansi Super League campaign.

Eoin told reporters, “The T10 format is brilliant. It's probably the closest cricket will get to baseball. It exposes a different aspect of cricket. It also attracts a different fan as well in the sense that you'd probably find a lot of people there who wouldn't go to a normal cricket match. It's so easy to understand because it's arguably as simplified a cricket match as there possibly could be. I'm a huge fan.”

Meanwhile, English skipper believes that T10 cricket can help introduce children into the game, and making it to the youngsters is important for growing the game.

Morgan further added on the same, “The more you can tailor cricket towards kids, the more you can grow the game. Cricket's scoreboard has a million different things going on. If you're trying to explain that to a kid and you're a parent who's never played cricket, this is a solution. It's 100 balls and you need to score as much runs as you can. The parent becomes a coach.”

He signed off by saying, “You can start and finish an eight-to-ten-team tournament within 12 days. You can't do that in T20 cricket, it's not feasible. If we can grow the game in this manner, I'm all for it.”

(With ESPN Cricinfo Inputs)