{"id":467671,"date":"2026-03-10T11:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T11:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/467671\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T11:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T11:26:07","slug":"10-indian-cricketers-who-had-inter-faith-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/467671\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Indian cricketers who had inter-faith marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cricket might be India\u2019s biggest religion for many, but for the men on the pitch, real life often follows a different playbook. Beyond the floodlights and the roar of the crowd, many of our favourite cricketers have shown that a great partnership doesn&#8217;t need a shared prayer book to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>In a world where netizens often love to nitpick and criticise, these couples have stood their ground, proving that a loving home is built on respect and shared values\u2014not just labels. From the legendary &#8220;Tiger&#8221; Pataudi to today\u2019s 2026 T20 World Cup heroes, here are ten couples who chose love over religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cricket might be India\u2019s biggest religion for many, but for the men on the pitch, real life often&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[167595,1721,167590,167593,61191,167594,167591,167592,62629,36820,101,30688,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-467671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-anjum-khan","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-and-religion","tag-famous-cricket-couples","tag-indian-cricketers","tag-indian-cricketers-who-had-inter-faith-marriages","tag-interfaith-couples-in-cricket","tag-love-over-religion","tag-sharmila-tagore","tag-shivam-dube","tag-sports","tag-t20-world-cup-2026","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467671","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=467671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}