Graeme Swann reaches for Michael Jordan to explain Tendulkar's fame

A Manhattan hotel encounter gives The Overlap Cricket an unusually fast-moving Short from Swann's Stick to Cricket appearance.

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When Swanny played in America with Sachin Tendulkar! 🇺🇸

Graeme Swann remembers a Manhattan hotel full of people who knew exactly who Sachin Tendulkar was, and an American onlooker who needed an explanation.

In his Stick to Cricket appearance, the former England spinner recalls playing in New York alongside Tendulkar. Fans gathered around their Times Square hotel, Swann says, with police eventually forming a human chain to hold the crowd back in the lobby. Then Tendulkar emerged, the room erupted, and someone asked Swann who was causing all the excitement.

"He's like the Michael Jordan of cricket," Swann recalls explaining. The onlooker took the comparison rather literally, replying that he had expected someone taller. Around the podcast table, the story ends in laughter.

The excerpt passed 100,000 views in less than a day, far beyond The Overlap Cricket's usual first-day audience for a Short. In the comments, viewers pick up on Swann's American accent and the Jordan comparison: a quick way of translating cricket superstardom for someone outside the sport.

The full conversation brings Swann together with Michael Vaughan, Sir Alastair Cook, Phil Tufnell and David "Bumble" Lloyd. For readers looking for the longer telling, the episode's chapter list places Tendulkar in New York alongside Swann's all-time best XI, just after the hour mark.

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