‘Sherlock’ star Benedict Cumberbatch hailed a real-life hero for saving cyclist from attackers

Consider this: You’re in a group of muggers in London, trying to steal a delivery man’s bike, and Sherlock Holmes comes barrelling at you.

What do you do? Ask for an autograph? Run?

Four would-be thieves chose Option 2, fleeing after actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who has plays Holmes in the popular BBC series “Sherlock,” jumped out of an Uber and chased them down.

The Sun reported the November incident after Uber driver Manuel Dias came forward. He told the paper he did not recognise Cumberbatch at first, but it dawned on him after the assailants smashed a bottle on the victim’s head and Cumberbatch ran toward them yelling: “Leave him alone.”

There he was, star of stage and screen, blocks away from Holmes’ fictional London home, Dias realised.