Cricketers are the most loved and glorified sportsmen in Pakistan. The board is politicized but a cricketer gets a lot of opportunities and they can make a lot of money out of this sport. From advertisements to leagues, cricketers are everywhere and even their wives get viral and in some cases become influencers after they get together with cricket stars.
Many of our cricket stars have tied the knot recently. It was a wedding galore in Pakistani cricket and we saw Shadab Khan, Haris Rauf, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Imam ul Haq and Shan Masood all getting married one after the other. The cricketers were later seen taking their brides on tours and their pictures also kept getting viral.
Ramiz Raja was asked in a podcast recently on why cricketers lose their fitness after getting married as this has happened to too many players now and this is also becoming meme material for many. Ramiz Raja has been in the cricket business for decades and he had an opinion on this.
He said that he never travelled with his wife while he was playing. He said that travelling with a wife and young kids is not an easy job when you are working for so many hours. Thus when players have these pressures from family and then their work, performance suffers. Therefore, cricketers should stay a week for vacation after the tour is over rather than taking so much on during matches. Here is what he shared:
