• India cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar and Australian great Shane Warne shown together in New York City on Saturday for their all-star Twenty20 match. Jewel Samad / AFP
    India cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar and Australian great Shane Warne shown together in New York City on Saturday for their all-star Twenty20 match. Jewel Samad / AFP
  • Sachin’s Blaster and Warne’s Warriors players line up during the US national anthem before the start of the first in a three-match, all-star T20 series. Jewel Samad / AFP
    Sachin’s Blaster and Warne’s Warriors players line up during the US national anthem before the start of the first in a three-match, all-star T20 series. Jewel Samad / AFP
  • Sachin’s Blaster (in blue) and Warne’s Warriors (purple) players line up during the US national anthem at Citi Field, where baseball’s World Series concluded on last weekend. Jewel Samad / AFP
    Sachin’s Blaster (in blue) and Warne’s Warriors (purple) players line up during the US national anthem at Citi Field, where baseball’s World Series concluded on last weekend. Jewel Samad / AFP
  • Sachin Tendulkar plays a shot on Saturday during a T20 match in New York City at the home of baseball’s New York Mets. Jewel Samad / AFP
    Sachin Tendulkar plays a shot on Saturday during a T20 match in New York City at the home of baseball’s New York Mets. Jewel Samad / AFP
  • Former Pakistan bowling great Wasim Akram delivers a ball to Sachin’s Blaters batsman Curtly Ambrose during their T20 legends match in New York City on Saturday. Jewel Samad / AFP
    Former Pakistan bowling great Wasim Akram delivers a ball to Sachin’s Blaters batsman Curtly Ambrose during their T20 legends match in New York City on Saturday. Jewel Samad / AFP
  • Sachin’s Blasters batsman Moin Khan plays a shot on Saturday during the legends T20 match at the home of baseball’s New York Mets. Jewel Samad / AFP
    Sachin’s Blasters batsman Moin Khan plays a shot on Saturday during the legends T20 match at the home of baseball’s New York Mets. Jewel Samad / AFP
  • West Indies great Curtly Ambrose plays a shot off Wasim Akram during the legends T20 match on Saturday in New York City. Jewel Samad / AFP
    West Indies great Curtly Ambrose plays a shot off Wasim Akram during the legends T20 match on Saturday in New York City. Jewel Samad / AFP
  • Fans cheer on Saturday in New York as Warne’s Warriors and Sachin’s Blaters play during the first of a three-match T20 series in the US. Jewel Samad / AFP
    Fans cheer on Saturday in New York as Warne’s Warriors and Sachin’s Blaters play during the first of a three-match T20 series in the US. Jewel Samad / AFP
  • Shoaib Akhtar delivers a ball to Jacques Kallis during the T20 legends match in New York City on Saturday. Jewel Samad / AFP
    Shoaib Akhtar delivers a ball to Jacques Kallis during the T20 legends match in New York City on Saturday. Jewel Samad / AFP
  • Muttiah Muralitharan delivers a ball on Saturday to Ricky Ponting during the first in a three-match all-star T20 series in the US. Jewel Samad / AFP
    Muttiah Muralitharan delivers a ball on Saturday to Ricky Ponting during the first in a three-match all-star T20 series in the US. Jewel Samad / AFP
  • Australia great Ricky Ponting plays a shot during the T20 legends match on Saturday at a baseball ground in New York City. Jewel Samad / AFP
    Australia great Ricky Ponting plays a shot during the T20 legends match on Saturday at a baseball ground in New York City. Jewel Samad / AFP
  • A general view of the teams, captained by Sachin Tendulkar and Shane Warne, playing Twenty20 cricket at baseball’s home of the New York Mets on Saturday. Dominick Reuter / Reuters
    A general view of the teams, captained by Sachin Tendulkar and Shane Warne, playing Twenty20 cricket at baseball’s home of the New York Mets on Saturday. Dominick Reuter / Reuters
  • Sachin’s Blasters captain Sachin Tendulkar and Warne’s Warrors captain Shane Warne wave to fans after the T20 legends match on Saturday in New York City. Jewel Samad / AFP
    Sachin’s Blasters captain Sachin Tendulkar and Warne’s Warrors captain Shane Warne wave to fans after the T20 legends match on Saturday in New York City. Jewel Samad / AFP

Sachin Tendulkar and Shane Warne turn home of MLB’s New York Mets into cricket pitch – in pictures


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Images from Saturday’s Twenty20 match at New York City’s Citi Field, home of baseball’s New York Mets, between “Sachin’s Blasters” and “Warne’s Warriors” as part of a T20 series between the two all-star sides in the US. Click the arrows below to scroll through the photos.

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