Electric （人が）群がるs 元気づける Sachin, 警告する at New York cricket match
まっただ中に a sea of Indian shirts, ぱたぱたするing Pakistan 旗s and deafening roars, New York cricket fans turned out in their thousands to watch 広大な／多数の／重要なs of the game 直面する off against each other -- in a baseball stadium.
Australian spin king Shane 警告する and Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar captained two 星／主役にする-studded teams in a Twenty20 match designed to introduce Americans to what organisers 法案d as the world's second most popular sport.
警告する's 軍人s （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 Sachin's Blasters, with 警告する man of the match after （人命などを）奪う，主張するing Tendulkar's wicket.
Sachin's Blasters captain Sachin Tendulkar (C) waves to fans at the end of the first of a three-match T20 series agains t 警告する's 軍人s at the Citi Field in New York on November 7, 2015 ?Jewel Samad (AFP)
But it was the Indian 星／主役にする who most of the 圧倒的な South Asian 国外追放／海外移住 （人が）群がる had come to see.
"Sachin, Sachin, Sachin," 叫び声をあげるd the stadium in unison, hundreds wearing blue Indian shirts, many with the 記録，記録的な／記録する-breaking batsman's 指名する emblazoned on the 支援する.
"Sachin for 大統領," read one 旗，新聞一面トップの大見出し／大々的に報道する.
軽食ing on hot dogs and nachos, chewing on pretzels and quaffing beer, for many it was the first time in years they had watched live cricket in America, long 餓死するd of the sport.
The three-hour match will be followed by games in Houston and Los Angeles.
警告する told reporters 36,000 people had packed into the Citi Field -- home of the New York Mets baseball team -- for the game.
"I thought it was fantastic, the atmosphere was amazing," he said.
At the end, the players lapped the pitch, waving and applauding the （人が）群がる, which Tendulkar compared to the home （人が）群がる at the Mets' World Series.
- Hero Sachin -
"The whole idea of Cricket All 星／主役にするs is that, to try to get as many nations together to celebrate this," Tendulkar said. "It was electrifying."
"The music, （人が）群がる, atmosphere -- it was nothing not to like. How could you not enjoy that experience today? It was fantastic," said 警告する.
Fans from all backgrounds helped create a party atmosphere.
There were couples with babies, fathers with sons, and 青年s waving 旗s of India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
All were fixated by the 活動／戦闘. Tendulkar's 開始 stint at the crease saw the 譲歩 stands 砂漠d, few willing to waste a second of a once-in-a-lifetime 適切な時期.
"Sachin has been my hero growing up so I had to come," said Akriti, who was born in Delhi but has spent more than half her life in America.
She believes Americans could easily embrace cricket, and brought along her enthusiastic American husband Scott as proof.
"The fact that we in America don't watch it is 肉親，親類d of sad. 加える there's a lot of time for 商業の breaks so everyone can 出資する on it, you know," she joked. "I think it's 広大な／多数の／重要な."
- Big 取引，協定 -
"I love it. I'm learning, she's teaching me," said Scott, a recruiter. "Once it catches on, I'm sure it'll take off."
Two New York brothers （機の）カム with a friend who flew in 特に from Toronto -- all die-hard Pakistan fans and over the moon to watch their heros Wasim Akram and Shoaib Akhtar.
"He (Akram)'s been our 国家の hero, he helped us 勝利，勝つ the '92 World Cup, so really excited to get to see him live in 活動／戦闘," said Harris Chaudhry, 25, who 作品 in 財政上の services.
"Last time I went to a cricket match was may be six, seven years ago so for me this is a big 取引，協定," said Toronto student Shakeel Haider.
But not everyone is 納得させるd the game can catch on in the land of baseball, basketball and American football.
"I think baseball's just so 堅固に守るd," said Philip W att, a 網状組織 engineer from Australia, nursing a beer and sitting alone.
Asked what he knew about the game, a stadium 安全 guard outside shrugged. "I don't care," he said. "As long as I'm getting paid, they could have a zoo in there!
Fans 元気づける at end of the first of a three-match T20 series between Sachin's Blasters and 警告する's 軍人s at the Citi Field in New York on November 7, 2015 ?Jewel Samad (AFP)
警告する's 軍人s batsman Ricky Ponting plays a 発射 during the first of a three-match T20 series at the Citi Field in New York on November 7, 2015 ?Jewel Samad (AFP)
Sachin's Blasters bowler Shoaib Akhtar (L) celebrates 解任するing 警告する's 軍人s batsman Matthew Hayden during the first of a three-match T20 series between at the Citi Field in New York on November 7, 2015 ?Jewel Samad (AFP)
警告する's 軍人s captain Shane 警告する (R) celebrates after 解任するing Sachin's Blasters batman VVS Laxman during the first of a three-match T20 series at the Citi Field in New York on November 7, 2015 ?Jewel Samad (AFP)
