Happy Birthday Amitabh Bachchan: Here’s All About Big B’s Undying Love For Cricket!

On Koimoi.com last year, our birthday tribute was titled “Happy Birthday Amitabh Bachchan; Do you know everything about our Shahenshah”. The link is below:

One year has passed. Its October 11 once again, and it’s time to wish our Shahenshah Happy Birthday once again! India has two passions, movies and cricket and Amitabh Bachchan has keen interest in cricket. Moreover, he never fails to encourage the Indian cricket team and its players. Let’s revisit some of Mr Bachchan’s interesting moments/incidents concerning cricket.

Singing National Anthem before Indo-Pak T-20 World Cup Match

This was at Eden Gardens on the invitation of former Captain Sourav Ganguly, who was the CAB President. Like the entire country, Amitabh too calls him Dada and said “how can i say no to dada.”. In front of a packed stadium just before the India-Pakistan T20 match, Amitabh sang the National Anthem. For Pakistan, their National anthem was sung by singer Shaqfat Amanat Ali, who said it was an honour for him to sing the anthem along with Mr. Bachchan.

Commentary with Kapil Dev, Arun Lal, Rahul Dravid & Shoaib Akhtar during Indo-Pak ODI World Cup Match

Mr Bachchan had made his commentary debut in the India-Pakistan Cricket World Cup game in Adelaide during the 2015 World Cup. This was as part of a promotional activity for his upcoming film Shamitabh as revealed by his son Abhishek and director R Balakrishnan and Abhishek said that his dad was working very hard for the commentary debut and was a bit nervous as well, though he had the best voice in the world. Mr Bachchan shared commentary screen space with Arun Lal and Shoaib Akhtar and later said that doing commentary with legends like Kapil and Rahul was a big honour for him.