Top 10 celebrity cricket fans around the world

Gary Lineker

Renowned as one of England’s all-time greatest strikers in football, the gray-haired Gary Lineker also excelled at cricket during his formative years.

Growing up in Leicester, Lineker captained the Leicestershire Schools cricket team from age 11 to 16 and felt that he had a better chance of success in this game rather than in football. He idolized former England captain David Gower, who played for that county at the time.

However, fate had other plans, and football gained what cricket eventually lost. Even so, Lineker was named Honourary President of the Paraguyan Elbows Cricket Club, based in Kent, in the late eighties.