1:  Garry Sobers’ brief engagement with Indian actress

Before she became the long-time girlfriend of Bollywood superstar Rajesh Khanna, actress Anju Mahendru had almost got married to cricketing legend Garry Sobers. Anju was engaged briefly to the West Indian. Sobers fell in love with Anju when he came to India in 1967 as captain of the West Indies team.

2:  Glenn Turner’s Sikh wife

Glenn Turner, one of the earliest great batsmen New Zealand produced, married Sukhinder Kaur Gill in 1973. Sukhi Turner, as she came to be known, went on to become Mayor of Dunedin for nearly a decade.