Indian cricketer Veda Krishnamurthy registered her marriage to partner and Karnataka First Class player Arjun Hoysala in a quiet court affair in Bengaluru on Thursday.

The 30-year-old revealed the decision to officially tie the knot on this date to WV Raman on his weekly show on Sportstar, Wednesdays with WV.

I want to register my wedding on January 12 which is my mom’s birthday. I want that day to be special and always connected to me. This falls in a month where you’re not supposed to exchange garlands or conduct auspicious events or we would have had the proper wedding on this date. But going forward, when we celebrate anniversaries, it will be on this day,” she said.

Krishnamurthy lost her mother Cheluvamaba Devi, 67, to COVID-19-related complications in 2021. She lost her sister Vatsala Shivakumar, 42, to the pandemic two weeks later.

Krishnamurthy and Hoysala got engaged in September 2022.

She made her debut in international cricket at the age of 18 in a one day international against England Women at Derby on 30 June 2011.

Krishnamurthy went on to score 51 runs in her ODI international debut. She is a right-handed batter and bowls right-arm leg break.

She started her formal cricket training in the Karnataka Institute of Cricket in 2005 when she was 13. Realising her talent, the institute's director Irfan Sait urged Veda's father to shift her to Bengaluru to further hone her skills

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