{"id":364695,"date":"2026-01-11T16:18:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T16:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/364695\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T16:18:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T16:18:36","slug":"fact-check-did-australias-ellyse-perry-propose-to-pakistan-batter-babar-azam-heres-all-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/364695\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact check: Did Australia\u2019s Ellyse Perry propose to Pakistan batter Babar Azam? Here\u2019s all you need to know |"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Fact If you\u2019ve been on social media lately, you\u2019ve probably stumbled across that viral photo of Australia\u2019s cricket star Ellyse Perry down on one knee in front of Pakistan\u2019s former captain Babar Azam<\/a>. The internet went wild with it. People started saying she had actually proposed to him during a Big Bash League match, and within hours, the picture was everywhere.Reactions poured in; some fans were thrilled, some were confused, and some just went, \u201cWait, what?\u201dBut here\u2019s the honest truth: it didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

The timing gives it away<\/p>\n

The easiest way to tell the story is fake is to simply look at when everything supposedly happened. While that picture was doing the rounds, Babar was busy playing in the Big Bash League in Australia. Perry, meanwhile, had already wrapped up the Women\u2019s Premier League and had gone back home, as reported by DNA. They weren\u2019t even in the same city -forget being on the same ground. So the whole \u201cproposal during the match\u201d thing just doesn\u2019t add up.
The picture itself feels oddIf you zoom in even a little, the image starts to fall apart. The lighting looks weird and uneven, the hands look slightly distorted, and the whole background doesn\u2019t quite sit right. It has that AI-edited vibe written all over it. Plus, think about it, if such a dramatic proposal had actually happened, there would be videos, multiple photos, interviews\u2026 not just a single random picture floating around.<\/p>\n

Why so many people believed it<\/p>\n

Honestly, it\u2019s not surprising it blew up. Perry and Babar are both huge names, and anything emotional or dramatic involving big players spreads like wildfire. People saw a surprising picture, hit share, and didn\u2019t really stop to check whether it was real. Happens all the time on the internet.<\/p>\n

Babar and rumours are not strangers<\/p>\n

This also isn\u2019t the first time Babar has found himself stuck in the middle of online gossip. Over the years, random photos and posts about him have gone viral again and again – many of them totally baseless. Fans get excited, no one fact-checks, and suddenly a rumour turns into \u201cnews.\u201d<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s actually true?<\/p>\n

Simple: Ellyse Perry did not propose to Babar Azam. The viral photo is edited, and the story is just another social-media rumour. It\u2019s a good reminder that everything online isn\u2019t real, no matter how convincing it looks at first glance. A quick fact-check can save you from believing (and spreading) complete nonsense.Thumb image: X<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019ve been on social media lately, you\u2019ve probably stumbled across that viral photo of Australia\u2019s cricket star…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[10548,29233,26815,1721,139449,98359,139450,20453,139451,101,56,54,55,139448,116475],"class_list":{"0":"post-364695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-australia-cricket","9":"tag-babar-azam","10":"tag-big-bash-league","11":"tag-cricket","12":"tag-cricket-rumors","13":"tag-ellyse-perry","14":"tag-fact-check-proposal-rumor","15":"tag-pakistan-cricket","16":"tag-social-media-rumors","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-unitedkingdom","21":"tag-viral-photo-proposal","22":"tag-womens-premier-league"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}