What do Indian players look for in women?

While it's common in football to have celebrity match-ups and marriages, the WAGs trend is not quite the same as far as India's cricketers are concerned. With such a hectic lifestyle travelling across the globe and managing their own celebrity status, many of India's star players now prefer settling down with women who can take care of their families, as opposed to a trophy wife. Players who come from less-fortunate backgrounds make for an interesting study. There are instances of such cricketers choosing partners who are often better educated and more qualified than themselves. Arpita Basu has more in Outlook.

Cricket’s current first lady Sakshi, for instance—an alumnus of Welham Girls School in Dehradun, a hotel management graduate from Aurangabad, and a resident of Alipore, one of Calcutta’s more affluent pockets—enjoyed, according to Yudhajit, “a kind of exposure during her growing up years that was quite different from Dhoni’s”. Sachin Tendulkar, who did not complete college, went on to marry Dr Anjali Mehta, the daughter of an industrialist, and older than him.