File picture of Sachin Tendulkar’s marriage with spouse Anjali.© X (Twitter)
Legendary Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and his spouse Anjali have been married for practically 30 years now. Though many followers know in regards to the bond between the 2, and the way Anjali has been Sachin’s spine all through his taking part in profession, not a lot has ever been mentioned about their non-public lives. Nonetheless, Anjali’s mom, Annabelle Mehta, has opened up in regards to the time Sachin requested her daughter’s hand in marriage – when the star batter was solely 19 years outdated – and the way information of their impending marriage had been saved a secret.
Anjali’s household had moved from England to India through the Nineteen Fifties, and Annabelle has opened up about these days in her new memoir ‘My Passage to India’, as printed by Occasions of India. Right here, Annabelle writes on the day Sachin got here to fulfill her to suggest the thought of marrying Anjali.
“I had clocked by then that Sachin was the brightest star within the Indian cricketing firmament, however I used to be involved by the opportunity of him turning into a playboy like so a lot of his fellow cricketers. Sachin within the nineties was like David Beckham in England. I wanted to look him within the eye and ask him how he felt about my daughter,” writes Annabelle.
Sachin’s response took Annabelle without warning.
“‘We wish to get married’ had been his exact phrases. I used to be astounded. I had all the time imagined Anjali marrying a tall, darkish and good-looking man. Darkish and good-looking, Sachin was. However at nineteen, he was nonetheless a boy. And so small. Barely taller than Anjali, who’s five-foot-five and a half. Sachin’s bouncy hair most likely offers him one other inch, however not sufficient for Anjali to put on the excessive heels she had all the time beloved,” provides Annabelle.
Regardless of being 19 when Sachin had revealed his intention to marry Anjali, he waited until 1995 – when he was 22 – to tie the knot.
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