West Indian cricketing legends like Sir Garfield Sobers was involved with Anju Mahendru though the relation wasn’t a success. Another West Indian legend Vivian Richards went a step ahead of Sobers by having a daughter from his relationship with Neena Gupta, though he never married her. A more close to home example of an unsuccessful relation was between Indian legend Kapil Dev and the then sex-siren of Bollywood Sarika. Kapil Dev went back to his girl friend and Sarika later married and then divorced Southern superstar Kamal Hasan. Sorry tale!
But the Bollywood has provided some real eye and arm candies for our handsome cricketing hunks, bowling them over and tying the nuptial knot with them. Celeb couples like cricketer Manoj Prabhakar and actress Farheen, former Indian captain Mohd. Azharuddin and former Miss India-turned-actress Sangeeta Bijlani. The latter were in for a hard time as Azhar was already married with kids.
But today’s generation likes to flaunt their love and in even bigger and better fashion. The hunks of cricket are now bowling over the ladies of Bollywood with their talent and their drop-dead looks. The gossip mills are now running high on news flashes of the young wannabes of Bollywood going around with the hot and sizzling young idols of Indian cricket. Stylish Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh and actress Kim Sharma make a cute couple at almost all the social dos they attend and giving them a good competition is the more serious couple, cricketer Zaheer Khan and actress Isha Sharvani. The couple has been allegedly living together for quite some time now. Another couple hitting the headlines is the Indo-English duo of Bollywood actress Amrita Arora and English county cricketer Usman Afzal.