10 Cricketers who played another innings as musicians

2. Sanjay Manjrekar:

Former Indian batsman Sanjay Manjrekar had confessed in an interview about his penchant for Bengali music. Post retirement, Manjrekar had no hesitation in taking the microphone in his hand and landed a few playback singing contracts for Bengali movies.

It was Sanjay Kanhade, a sports journalist, who inspired Manjrekar to record an album after his retirement. He eventually released an album titled ‘Restday’ in which he sang all the favourite songs of the team and it was Javagal Srinath who helped him in getting the playlist right.

However, he didn’t continue his singing career any further and turned up to be a commentator thereafter. Well, that sounds fair enough. He is still lending his voice, be it for playback singing or for the commentary.

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