Sachin, Warne gear up for Cricket All Stars’ face-off

The cricket all stars will play 3 games on their US road show here in New York.

A British journalist reminded Warne and Tendulkar about a story English talkshow host Michael Parkinson told about being on a trans-Atlantic flight, explaining the rules of cricket to an American passenger next to him and then receiving the reply: “Wow, they do that all on horseback?”

Tendulkar, joined by Australian spin legend Shane Warne and 28 other players, said about 1000 young aspiring cricketers would be in the stands to watch the game and get a chance to witness and learn from their idols.

“Who do I see to get a pump?” The players were assigned to the two teams through a draw of lots.

On the other hand, Warne selected a few of his former Australian teammates to play for his side, including Matthew Hayden, Ricky Ponting and Andrew Symonds.

The duo is mobbed from Mumbai to Melbourne, with fans so rabid Tendulkar employs a full-time bodyguard. At the Thursday press conference, Tendulkar and Warne shared how they came up with the idea of T20 all stars match. We are to popularize cricket, never thought this would happen, but we are happy and excited now. “Everybody is talking about Cricket in Olympics, I think this is the beginning of that”, said Tendulkar.

“Cricket is second only to soccer in terms of world popularity”, said the legendary spinner about his new venture. We got 30 superstars who made cricket proud. That is a dream and vision Warne and I have. “What makes it even more special is that we will be playing in Major League Baseball stadiums in America in front of new and existing fans”. Ganguly will be turning up for Sachin Tendulkar’s team “Sachin’s Blasters”. The three-match series is co-promoted by these two legends and aims at taking cricket to the United States. The tickets will be issued on a first-come, first-served basis by emailing Cricket All Stars team.

The beauty about this All Stars Cricket tournament is that the bowling looks just as exciting as the batting.

There was a desire by Shane and Sachin to bring their All-Stars project to the United States to explore the boundaries of the game and take their concept to areas that would thoroughly appreciate the unique series.

“They needed to be more open to interacting with Americans”, Harrison said.

Imagine cricket as baseball without foul balls – cricket is played from the center of the field, a 360-degree game with no foul lines.

Oxigen had also leveraged cricket when they had launched the campaign ‘#Playthehost’, for the South African T20 cricket team, which they are sponsoring for the series.

The matches will be broadcast in Australia on the Nine Network’s GEM channel.

“With us you might see one or two an over”.

“The reason for picking up a cricket bat again after retirement is to globalize the sport”, he said, while alongside Warne.

And Perham’s the man doing it.

The three-hour match will be followed by games in Houston and Los Angeles.

Maggie Lake, reporter: “What do you say to people, I’m a baseball fan, I watch football my calendar is booked, why should I tune in to cricket?”