When Sachin Tendulkar and Shane Warne walk the streets of New York, they create an odd phenomenon. About 95 percent of the pedestrians pass them without a second look. The other 5 percent go bonkers.

Tendulkar and Warne are two of the world’s best cricket players, which means little to most Americans. But to those with roots in India, Australia or other cricket-loving countries, spotting them on the street is like a serendipitous encounter with Michael Jordan, Pope Francis or Taylor Swift.

“Wherever Sachin goes, you’ve got a billion people who love him,” said Warne, who is in the United States with Tendulkar for three exhibition matches, the first of them Saturday at Citi Field. “That’s just in India, let alone around the world.

“Coming to America, you really only have cricket lovers, but there’s still so many of those, especially from India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.”