Amidst rumors that he and Sania Mirza were splitting up, Shoaib Malik married Pakistani actress Sana Javed.

In his post, Shoaib Malik shared photos from his nuptials with the actress, writing, “And we created you in pairs.”

Following the emergence of rumors of his divorce with Indian tennis legend Sania Mirza, veteran Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik wed Pakistani actor Sana Javed. Malik made the announcement on Saturday through a post on the website X, which was once known as Twitter. The message reads, “And we created you in pairs.” The post includes images from their wedding.

For a time now, there had been rumors that shoaib Malik was seeing Javed. However, when the former captain of Pakistan sent a birthday greeting to the actress last year, along with a photo of the two, he added fuel to the fire.

The 41-year-old previously defended Javed after the Pyaare Afzal actress faced criticism for allegedly acting rudely toward makeup artists and juniors on the set.”I have known Sana Javed for quite some time now and have had the opportunity to work with her multiple times, from my personal experience I can only say that she has always been kind & courteous towards me & the people around us,” shoaib Malik stated in a March 2022 tweet.

Given the reports of his divorce from Mirza, Malik’s wedding post came as a surprise to many on both sides of the border. In 2010, the couple celebrated their Walima in Sialkot, Pakistan, after being married in a traditional Muslim ceremony in Hyderabad. Izhaan, shoaib Malik and Mirza’s kid, was also born in 2018.

Although the exact moment their relationship broke down is unknown, it is thought to have happened around the first part of 2021. Based on their social media activity, Sania and Shoaib continued to be active on Instagram, sharing photos and stories about the two of them traveling the world and taking family photos on Dubai beaches. But with time, their social media mobility became more restricted. Sania and Shoaib were rumored to be working together on a TV show last year. Eventually, this was confirmed when Spotify debuted The Mirza Malik show, in which the two welcomed a number of celebrities for 40-minute episodes.

Sania had earlier on Wednesday sparked rumors of shoaib Malik and her getting divorced by sharing a mysterious picture on her Instagram account. Her message said: “Marriage is difficult.” Divorce is difficult. Select your hard. Being obese is difficult. Maintaining fitness is difficult. Select your hard. Having debt is difficult. Maintaining financial discipline is difficult. Select your hard. It’s difficult to communicate. It’s difficult to not communicate. Select your hard. There will never be an easy life. It’s going to be difficult forever. We may select our hard, though. Make sensible choices.”

Is this the third marriage for Shoaib Malik?

This is Malik’s second marriage as of record. Having said that, the cricket player disputed reports that Malik had wed Ayesha Siddiqui before to his marriage to Sania. Allegations that Malik was already married disrupted his wedding ceremony with Mirza.Ayesha, her family, and her sister Maha had escalated the situation on national television. Malik himself acknowledged that the entire chapter with Ayesha was a simple case of deception.

When the two chatted over the phone in the beginning of 2000, Ayesha declared that she was a Shoaib admirer. Although Malik agreed that the two were starting to sense a connection as they chatted often, Ayesha would never be available when Shoaib wanted to see her. When Malik traveled to Hyderabad in 2002 to meet her, Ayesha informed him that she had to take an immediate flight to Saudi Arabia. Three years later, the day before they were supposed to meet the family, shoaib Malik and his family learned that Ayesha had to come to the US.

Malik insisted on having a full-fledged ceremony with the families there and able to participate, despite Ayesh’s desire for the cricketer to have a telephone “Nikah.” It turned out that the female he was talking to and the one he had seen pictures of were not the same person. The story did not finish with Malik serving the father MA Siddiqui with a legal notice. Ayesha accused Shoaib of having a “intimate relationship” and made serious accusations against him. Additionally, she stated that during their “marriage,” she became pregnant, but it ended in miscarriage.