Essex County Cricket Club have announced plans to share the 2012 Olympic Stadium with West Ham and Newham Council.
Chelmsford would remain the home ground for Essex's County Championship matches but the club are keen to explore the possibility of playing Twenty20 cricket at the Stratford venue.
Essex CCC chief executive David East said: "We are very much looking forward to exploring this with Newham and West Ham.
"Our home ground will remain at the Ford County Ground in Chelmsford, but it would be fantastic to be able to play some of our expanded Twenty20 cricket tournament at the Olympic Stadium.
"We have a very active development programme in the east end of London, and this would give us an ideal opportunity to extend our community work even further with a centre of excellence in the borough."
East has discussed how such a joint bid might work with representatives of West Ham and the council.
If viable, the bid will be submitted to the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC), who are inviting proposals for the stadium's use after the Games.
East is not getting carried away with the prospect just yet, however.
"It is purely a feasibility study at this stage as far as cricket's concerned", he told Sky Sports News.
"We're delighted to be working with Newham to see whether cricket actually can take place in there.
"Obviously there are some reasonably substantive issues concerning the pitch, what pitch you would play on, and that's going to be part of the investigation that we work on.
"It's very, very early days. We've got to go through all of those operational, logistical exercises to see whether this is actually a goer.
"We may go through this exercise and work out cricket can't be played in there but we're going to explore it with them and it's a very exciting opportunity if it is feasible."
Hammers vice-chairman Karren Brady said: "It's about realising the full potential of the Olympic Park.
"If achievable it is the ideal answer for those who, rightly, demand a sustainable legacy from the 2012 Games and not a white elephant."
Joe Duckworth, chief executive of Newham Council, said: "The last thing anyone wants is for the Olympic Stadium to lay idle.
"We were concerned about this when London successfully won the bid to host the Games. The only realistic solution is to make it work for a range of sports and community uses."
