13 Overseas cricketers with Indian connections

4. Zaheer Abbas and Rita Luthra:

Pakistan’s run machine in the 1980s, Zaheer Abbas, met Rita Luthra in England. Rita Luthra was an interior designing student in the United Kingdom. It was during Zaheer’s stint with the county team of Gloucestershire, that he met Rita. The batsman who rarely got out on the field was bowled over by Rita on the love track. The couple did not face any problems in their marriage since their fathers were good friends. Prior to the partition of India-Pakistan, the Luthra family was based in Faisalabad. The couple married in 1988 and Rita was renamed as Samina Abbas. The couple now live in Karachi.