Love is said to be blind. It is such a beautiful feeling that everything seems to be right for the people who are in love. Love doesn’t see any caste, religion or age difference, it just happens. Do you know many of the famous cricketers married their cousin and not only this, few of them married their colleague’s ex-wife? Let’s take a look at some cricketers who either are married to their cousin or ex-wife of their friend:
Virender Sehwag
First name that tops the list is of Virender Sehwag. He is known for his amazing batting career in Indian cricket team. Sehwag is also famous for hilarious tweets and comments on other fellow cricketers. After dating Aarti for five years, he married her in 2004. Aarti is Sehwag’s distant cousin too. Sehwag and Aarti are happily married and have two sons’ Aryavir and Vedant.
Shahid Afridi
Shahid afridi is a well known name of the cricket world. Known as ‘boom boom Afridi’, Shahid was an all- rounder and former captain of Pakistan Cricket Team. Shahid is married to Nadia, who is his maternal cousin in relation. They are proud parents of four beautiful girls.
Saeed Anwar
Saeed married to his distant cousin Lubna in 1996. Saeed is one of the most amazing opening batsmen from Pakistan cricket team whereas Lubna is a doctor by profession.
Murli Vijay
Murli is known for his commendable on field performances. Murli Vijay married Nikita Vanjara in the year 2012. But Very few people know that Nikita was married to Dinesh Karthik before marrying to Murli.
Upul Tharanga
Upul is a wicket- keeper and left hand opening batsman of Srilanka Cricket Team. Upul is married to Nilanka, who is ex-wife of Tilakratne Dilshan. It is said that Upul’s and Nilanka’s closeness was the reason of Dilhan’s and Nilanka’s divorce.
