Foreign Cricketers And Their Indian spouses
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4) Zaheer Abbas and Rita Luthra:

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Foreign Cricketers And Their Indian Spouses 1The legendary Pak cricketer met Rita while playing county cricket for English club Gloucestershire. Rita, an interior designing student dated Abbas till they got married in the year 1988. Both their fathers being friends the union saw no obstacles and they settled down in Faisalabad. Later, they shifted to Karachi to support wife Abbas’ interior farm.

5) Mohsin Khan and Reena Roy:

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The political barriers were broken on 1st April 1983 as Reena Roy from India married Mohsin khan, Pakistan. The successful and gorgeous Bollywood actress found in the very talented batsman her ideal man and they tied the knot. However, the union didn’t last for long and both separated. Their only girl child named Sanam Khan lives with her mother.

6) Muttiah Muralitharan and Madhimalar Ramamurthy:

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Chennai’s renowned heart specialist Dr Ramamurthy’s daughter melt when she saw him, smile. Muralitharan, the stalwart Sri Lanka bowler, who holds the record of taking maximum wickets both in Test and ODI formats, married Chennai based Madhimalar Ramamurthy on 21st March 2005. They are blessed with a baby boy born in 2006.

7) Shoaib Malik and Sania Mirza:

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The most talked-about marriage of 2010 happened when India’s tennis sensation Sania Mirza broke her engagement with childhood friend Sohrab Mirza and married dashing Pak cricketer Shoaib Malik. Rumours soon broke after their marriage as the cricketer got accused of already being married to a Hyderabadi girl named Ayesha Siddiqui. The rumours were turned down primarily but later Malik family confirmed the news produced copies of marriage and Shoaib had to get a divorce. Shoaib and Sania are happily married till date.

To add a conclusion here is a one which wasn’t quite official but is still alive- Not really married:

Sir Vivian Richards and Neena Gupta

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It was a new kind of a relationship from India’s point of view when Windies legend confirmed Masaba Gupta to be his daughter with Neena Gupta, the famous Indian actress, without marriage. During the 1980s, their relationship became the talk of the nation but they never felt like getting married, their relationship had never been hidden from the public though. Masaba, a celebrated fashion designer now, happens to have a decent relationship with her father and was caught saying- “Not everyone gets to be Sir Viv’s daughter”.

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Paulami Chakraborty

Lover of sport, mostly Cricket, Tennis and Football. Trying to catch up to hockey and Kabaddi recently. A photographer by hobby.

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