Bollywood actresses who married cricketers

Maha Shivratri is a festival that is believed to celebrate the wedding of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati. Many B-town celebrities like Amitabh Bachchan, Sridevi, Madhur Bhandarkar, Kajol, on Tuesday took to Twitter to wish their fans and family on the festival.

Another tinsel town celeb, who celebrated the festival was former actress Sangeeta Bijlani. She was snapped at a Shiv temple while offering prayers. Clad in an off-white saree with a green and red border paired up with a red blouse, Sangeeta looked beautiful. With her hair let down and matching jewellery, she looked mesmerising.

Bollywood has had its share of romantic liaisons between its actors and athletes. Be it the alleged love affairs that were never publicly accepted or the ones that went on to starry marriages, relationships like these have created quite a flutter in cinema buffs and cricket buffs. While some relationships fizzled out, a few went on to solidify into marriages. Here’s looking at Bollywood actresses who married cricketers.

Rumours of their relationship started doing rounds when Sagarika Ghatge and Zaheer Khan made an entry together at Yuvraj Singh and Hazel Keech's wedding. After dating for about 9 months, the couple decided to get engaged. Zaheer broke the news on Twitter with an adorable tweet. He wrote, “Never laugh at your wife's choices. You are one of them !!! Partners for life. #engaged @sagarikavghatge” On November 23, 2017, the two got hitched.

Fans waited for a long time to see one of their fav cricketer Yuvraj Singh get hitched. The cricketer who was rumoured to be dating actress Kim Sharma for quite a while battled cancer and made his return to the Indian team. Two weeks after attending Harbhajan Singh's wedding reception, Yuvraj and Hazel Keech got engaged in Bali. She dodged his invitation for a coffee for about three years. But, when they finally went on a date, love didn't take long to blossom.

In a classic case of clean bowled, cricketer Harbhajan Singh fell head over heels for Geeta Basra whom he met through common friends. Even so, the shy spinner preferred to keep his affair under wraps in public. The couple dated for a good eight years before making it official with a traditional gurudwara ceremony in Bhajji's hometown, Jalandhar. Everyone from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to colleagues like skipper M S Dhoni attended the grand reception in New Delhi.

In 1994, Mohammad Azharuddin was rumoured to be having an extra-marital affair with Sangeeta Bijlani. The two met at a commercial shoot for the first time in the early 1990s and then continued to meet each other at public functions and flights. Azhar finally divorced his wife Naureen which made matters serious. The right-handed batsman finally wed Bijlani in 1996. The two celebrities are currently divorced, and it is all over between them if rumors are to believed. Though Sangeeta Bijlani has been seen campaigning with the cricketer on quite a few occasions.

When the youngest captain of Indian cricket team, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi met the bold and beautiful Bollywood actor, Sharmila Tagore, he didn't know much about the film industry. For the next four years, he tried to woo her by sending roses, letters and even a refrigerator! She fell for his sense of humour and finally agreed to date him. Pataudi proposed to Sharmila on the streets of Paris and the two remained married until his demise in 2011.