Houston: Sachin Tendulkar and Shane Warne's grand plan of taking cricket to the USA is fast gathering momentum and arousing curiosity among people, who seem fascinated by the sport's similarity to baseball.

Despite Diwali night, chaotic traffic and rain, the baseball stadium, which was transformed into an oval pitch for the game, was thronged by over 26,000 fans for the second Cricket All-Stars game, not just from Houston and other cities in Texas, but as far as from Chicago, Arkansas, Okhlahoma and Colorado.