Sachin Tendulkar: T20 right format to globalise cricket

New York: Batting great Sachin Tendulkar has insisted that fast paced Twenty20 game is the ' right format' to globalise the game of cricket. "The format is fast, it's gripping, it's got lot of energy and invariably the finishes are real close. Very rarely you get to see a one-sided game, which is what people like to see. Towards the end of most T20 games, every ball matters," Tendulkar was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo. Tendulkar and Shane Warne are set to captain opposing teams in a three-match 'All-Stars' T20 exhibition tour of the United States. Cricket All Stars League 2015: TVS Tyres to be co-sponsors The series will comprise of former international stalwarts from others Test playing nations, with the matches to be played in New York (Nov.7), Houston (Nov. 11) and Los Angeles (Nov 14). Tendulkar, the only cricketer to score 100 international centuries in game's history, hoped that the cricketing extravaganza of the retired superstars would inspire the American youngsters to take up the sport. "Somewhere down the line maybe a kid in the US will hold a baseball bat in one hand and cricket bat in another," he added. Sachin Tendulkar: Facing Shane Warne in Cricket All-Stars League 2015 great Earlier, when Tendulkar and Warne were present at the streets of New York, it was an odd happening that almost no one recognized them and just passed away, however some handful who recognized them were just astonished. Tendulkar and Warne are one of the greatest cricketers in India and Australia, but in a place where cricket is not loved as much as in other parts of the world, their presence does not have much of a difference. Sachin Tendulkar, Shane Warne go unrecognised on streets of New York