5 International Cricketers Who Got Married With Their Relatives

5 International Cricketers Who Married Relatives; Celebrities have always been the major talking point for the fans across the world. They love knowing about their idols or heroes and wants to follow their lifestyle. With the emergence of social media, the connectivity between the celebrity and fans has become very easier. During the course of interaction with the fans on social media, more often than not, they get those love and marriage proposals from the fans, which shows their love.

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Of late, we came across the celebrities marrying only celebrities or their childhood friends. However, one can’t interfere in someone life, as there are certain freedom rights for every individual and it is solely a personal issue. However, there is a myth, which says that people of the same family shouldn’t get married. Nonetheless, these five cricketers proved that there are no barriers in love and married their relatives.

5 International Cricketers Who Married Relatives:

5. Virender Sehwag married his cousin:

The swashbuckling opening batsman has always been a unique person in his life. The fun-loving character always looked at things in an efficient way thus making things sort out easily. Much to the same, he had a similar impact on his marriage as well.

Virender Sehwag and Aarti Ahlawat – They have been married for the last 12 years and have two sons. But did you know the fact that Aarti is actually a distant relative of Sehwag?

Sehwag was just 21 when he proposed to Aarti. They dated for five years, after which the duo got married on April 22, 2004. Now, they are proud parents of two boys, Aryavir and Vedant.

4. Shahid Afridi married his maternal cousin:

The former all-rounder of Pakistan Shahid Afridi also makes into the chart. He has got a huge fan base during his playing times for Pakistan. There have always been headlines for the huge number of proposals he got from the fans on various occasions.

However, leaving everyone,  the right-handed cricketer married to Nadia, who is his maternal cousin in relation. They both tied the knot after Afridi’s father arranged their match. Shahid and Nadia together are parents to four beautiful daughters.

3. Saeed Anwar Married his distant Cousin:

Yeah, the former Pakistan specialist cricketer Saeed Anwar too married his own cousin thus breaking all the rules during those times. Saeed is one of the most amazing opening batsmen from Pakistan cricket team whereas Lubna is a doctor by profession.

However, love blossomed between both, which saw them both getting married to each other. Saeed married to his distant cousin Lubna in 1996.

Just when everything was going brilliant to the duo, they struck with a major shock when their beautiful daughter Bismah lost her life due to prolonged illness. Later, Anwar called curtains on his career.

2. Mustafizur Rahman married his maternal cousin:

The left-handed fast bowler is one of the latest cricketers to fall in such a category. Arguably, Mustafizur Rahman is one of the finest bowlers ever delivered by Bangladesh in the game of cricket across the formats. He started his international career with a bang and still going strong across the formats.

The youngster tied the knot with his maternal cousin, Samia Parvin. She is a psychology student at Dhaka University. He got married just after escaping from a dangerous terrorist attack in New Zealand.

1. Mosaddek Hossain married his cousing at the age of 16:

Yeah, you read the title correctly. At the age of 16 years, Mosaddek Hossain married to his cousin Sharmin Samira Usha. The duo has shared a nice relation for six years but all of a sudden, they were on the news for all the wrong reasons. His wife Samira accused him of harassing her to bring dowry.

Sharmin Samira Usha has also alleged that her cricketer husband drove her out of their home earlier this month and demanded 1 million taka (INR 840133.09, USD 12,003).

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According to a report in bdnews24.com, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Rosina Khan admitted the charges brought by Usha against the middle-order batsman and ordered the Sadar Upazila executive officer to investigate the case.

However, currently, he is plying his trade for Bangladesh Cricket Team, where he is doing a fine job for the team across the formats.