Star Indian cricketer Axar Patel tied the knot with his fiancé Maha Patel in Vadodara on Thursday (January 26). The 29-year-old cricketer from Gujarat is not part of India’s white-ball team, which is engaged in a limited-overs series against New Zealand these days. He played in the Sri Lanka series but, due to his wedding, opted out of the New Zealand series, the first leg of which India won comfortably by a margin of 3-0.
Neither the cricketer nor his wife have posted any pictures on social media from the wedding ceremony, but several videos of the couple’s wedding functions have gone viral on social media. And in one video that is going viral and garnering a lot of attention, Axar can be seen dancing during the sangeet ceremony.The left-handed batter incorporates cricket into his stunning dance moves, as he can be seen imitating to bat first and then catch the ball.
Axar will be seen in action for India in the upcoming Border-Gavaskar Test series against Australia. He is part of the 17-member team selected for the red-ball matches. The Test battle between India and Australia will start on February 9 in Nagpur, and the matches will then take place in Delhi, Dharamsala, and Ahmedabad.
Axar, who made his Test debut for India against England in Chennai on February 13, 2021, has played a total of eight Test matches to date, in which he has picked up 47 wickets in 16 innings. He is one of the four spinners selected in India’s squad for the first two Tests and will face stiff competition from comeback man Ravindra Jadeja, India’s second-leading Test wicket-taker Ravichandran Ashwin, and the in-form Kuldeep Yadav.
India’s Test squad for the first two Tests against Australia: Rohit Sharma (captain), KL Rahul (vice-captain), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KS Bharat (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), R. Ashwin, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohd. Shami, Mohd. Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Jaydev Unadkat, Suryakumar Yadav.
