10 Cricketers who had interesting alternate professions

If you thought that all the cricketers never did anything apart from playing cricket, you will need to revisit your opinion. In fact, there have been them who have had proper alternate professions either before or after their playing days.Some did it for earning money, some did it for the sake of getting closer to the game and some because they had simply not imagined that they would become cricketers one day. We have dug a bit into the history of cricket and pulled out a few cricketers who had the most interesting alternate professions.Let’s take a look at 10 among them:

#10 Mitchell Johnson - Plumbing van driver

Mitchell Johnson drove plumbing vans for a living

Recently retired Aussie paceman Mitchell Johnson also had an interesting alternate profession before he started playing for his national team. There was a point in his early career when he lost out on his state side Queensland’s contract due to a string of back-to-back injuries. This prompted the fearsome fast bowler to drive plumbing vans for a living alongside striving on the cricket field to find his way back into the state team, which he later succeeded in doing.

This was followed by him being picked for the national team a few years later.