Performance Analysis of Indian cricketers before and after marriage
Did lady luck bring them success on the cricket field?
A number of cricketers got hitched in the last two years, including a few Indian cricketers. Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Harbhajan Singh are some of the names. And this winter season has been auspicious as cricket fans witnessed the Indian team skipper Virat Kohli, finally get engaged in wedlock. Virat got hitched to his beau and Bollywood diva Anushka Sharma in an extravagant affair in Italy.
While the Virat-Anushka marriage has given major relationship goals, we delve deeper into how the marriage affect the statistics of the cricketers. An interesting comparison of cricketers’ average before and after the marriage has been revealed. They say there’s a woman behind every successful man. We find out how marriage affected the performances of India’s top guns on the cricket field.
Given below is the detailed statistics of 5 top current and former batsman and how their statistics have changed since their wedlock.
1. Sachin Tendulkar:
One of the prodigal batsmen India and the world has witnessed, Sachin Tendulkar last donned the national outfit in 2013, pulling a curtain to his long and illustrious career that spanned close to twenty-four years. Ever since his debut in 1989, a then 16-year-old batsman showed immense promise, and quite rightly as he evolved into one of the legends of the game of cricket.
In 2002, halfway through his career, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack ranked Sachin the second greatest Test batsman of all time, behind Don Bradman, and the second greatest ODI batsman of all time, behind Viv Richards.
Sachin tied the knot with his wife Anjali on 24 May 1995. The Master Blaster on several occasion has also lauded his wife for her imperative support when Tendulkar would hit a low. And the records speak for itself.
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