The love stories of renowned cricketers and Bollywood actresses never fail to make it to the headlines. This bandwagon of love started back in the era of gorgeous actress Sharmila Tagore when she tied knots with Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi and is still prevailing to date. The fields of both cricket and Bollywood is a field with showbiz that treats a person with name and fame. This name and fame made tons of love affairs between cricketers and Bollywood actresses hit the limelight. While many love affairs took a step ahead and turned into marriage, some ended after the honeymoon periods. Here we bring you a list of the top 10 Bollywood actresses who dated renowned cricketers:
1. Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli: The happily married power couple of the nation started dating each other after sharing a screen for an advertisement. After grabbing headlines for their relationship, the couple tied the knot in 2017. Earlier this year, the couple became the proud parents of their little angel Vamika.
2. Sharmila Tagore and Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi: The credit for starting this trend goes to the gorgeous actress of the golden era Sharmila Tagore and Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi. The love story of the two started back in 1965. The couple dated for more than 4 years before tying knots. And on 27th December 1969, the couple finally got married and started their family.
3. Amrita Singh and Ravi Shastri: While most of the love stories turned into marriage, this couple parted away in middle. The fierce actress of Bollywood Amrita Singh and Ravi Shastri fell for each other head over heels in the 80s. But after dating each other for a short time, Ravi broke up with Amrita. The reason behind their breakup is still not clear.
4. Geeta Basra and Harbhajan Singh: After seeing the determination and sincerity of Geeta Basra towards the nation, the spin king of the Indian Cricket team Harbhajan Singh got clean bowled. Keeping their love affair away from the limelight, the couple tied knots back in 2015. And now they welcomed more members in their family.
5. Neena Gupta and Viv Richardson: The relationship between Neena Gupta and Vivian Richards has been quite infamous. Not only were they dating, Neena even got pregnant with Vivian’s daughter but still did not marry. Now her daughter Masaba Gupta has become a top name.
6. Sagarika Ghatage and Zaheer Khan: The pace machine of India, Zaheer Khan fell head over heels in love with Chak De India actress Sagarika Ghatage. The couple first met through a mutual friend and got hitched in 2017.
7. Deepika Padukone and Yuvraj Singh: Before she went on to have a six years-long relationship with Ranveer Singh that ended in a fruitful marriage, Deepika Padukone had been dating the Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh. Now, Yuvraj is also happily married to another Bollywood actress Hazel Keech.
8. Natasa Stankovic and Hardik Pandya: The DJ wale babu song’s actress Natasa Stankovic broke many hearts when she got engaged with the Indian cricket team all-rounder Hardik Pandya. After having a private wedding ceremony in lockdown, the couple recently welcomed their baby boy and named him Agasthya.
9. Sofia Hayat and Rohit Sharma: We know that both, the news of hitman dating Sofia Hayat and she having done Bollywood movies are shocking to you. Well, so were they for us! So, it was back in 2012 Sofia revealed that she had dated Rohit and that it was over! While she did not give the exact reason behind their breakup, she said that “she was looking for a gentleman this time”. Here’s the tweet through which she announced all this:
10. KL Rahul and Athiya Shetty: The daughter of Bollywood legend Sunil Shetty, Athiya Shetty has been making headlines for her relationship with Indian cricket team opener KL Rahul. The couple kept sharing videos and pictures together but never made their relationship official. But becoming the newest member of the bandwagon, KL Rahul and Athiya made their relationship official while sharing pictures together.
