India’s Top Cricket Stars Seek Marital Bliss in 2015

Posted on 23 December 2015. Tags: cricket, seek, India's, 2015, stars, Marital, Bliss

Suresh Raina marries Priyanka Chaudhary in April
Soon after India’s World Cup campaign ended, middle-order batting mainstay Suresh Raina married childhood friend Priyanka Chaudhary in a glittering ceremony. The wedding ceremony was attended by the who’s who of the cricket world including India’s limited-overs captain MS Dhoni, then ICC chairman N. Srinivasan, West Indeis all-rounder Dwayne Bravo and former New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming.
By the end of 2015, a lot had changed in Raina’s life – his form had dipped siginificantly and he blamed it on the constant shuffling in the batting-order. His IPL team of eight years, Chennai Super Kings was suspended for two years and the left-handed batsman found a new home in Rajkot. Will 2016 be any better? There are some stiff challenges waiting for him, starting with a tour of Australia and the ICC World T20.

Dinesh Karthik marries Dipika Pallikal in August
Dinesh Karthik had not played for India since their engagement against Afghanistan in the Asia Cup back in March, 2014. But he was still a top-draw in the IPL and his engagement to squash star Dipika Pallikal had made a lot of noise in the media. The duo tied the knot in a Christian ceremony on August 18 in Chennai, without the glitz and glamour that adorned Raina’s wedding four months back. Two days later, the pair married again, but this time they followed Hindu rituals.
By the end of 2015, nothing had changed for Karthik the cricketer – he was still far away from getting a national call-up but he seemed a visibly happier man.

Harbhajan Singh marries Geeta Basra in October
It was a great year for Harbhajan Singh, who made a comeback into the Indian fold after several years. He was included in the Test, ODI as well as T20 squads as India sought to use his expertise agains the wily Sri Lankans and dangerous South Africans.
And in October, Bhajji got hitched to long-time girlfriend Geeta Basra in star-studded wedding ceremony in Punjab on October 29. The wedding was attended by a host of stalwarts – Sachin Tendulkar was among them. It was followed by a lavish reception ceremony in New Delhi where Prime Minister Narendra Modi blessed the couple. A video of Virat Kohli and Yuvraj Singh dancing to Bollywood chartbusters went viral.

Rohit Sharma marries Ritika Sajdeh in December
This had to be the biggest wedding of the year. Rohit Sharma may have struggled in Test cricket lately but the Mumbai batsman is a already an ODI stalwart – he is the only cricketer with two double hundreds in the format.
Team India director Ravi Shastri, Sachin and Anjali Tendulkar, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ravindra Jadeja, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina and Umesh Yadav attended the wedding celebrations. There was some Bollywood glamour as well – Sonakshi Sinha, Amrita Arora and husband Shakeel Ladak and Bobby Deol made a bit of a buzz.

India’s 2011 World Cup hero Yuvraj Singh got engaged to Hazel Keech, breaking a million hearts in the country while Robin Uthappa got engaged to Sheetal Gautam in November.

Yuvraj Singh with Hazel Keech
Both these cricketers have struggled to make a comeback in the Indian team and they would hope for some luck from their ladies. Yuvraj has already started the turnaround with some explosive performances in the Vijay Hazare Trophy and he could be on the flight to Australia for the limited-overs series

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