Pakistani Off-Spinner Ties Knot to Indian Girl on the Phone

Nicknamed “Moon”, probably for his handsome looks, Malik’s nikha took place via telephone. He was in Sialkot in Pakistan and the woman thousands of miles away in the Andhra Pradesh capital Hyderabad. “We met in Dubai for the first time when she had gone with her father,” Malik, 23, told IANS in an interview. “The nikah was done on phone, two years ago, on May 2, 2003.” Malik, who has played eight Tests and 93 one-day internationals, said his would-be-wife has now settled down in Jeddah, where she is studying dentistry. Malik, however, plans to visit some of her family members in Hyderabad when Pakistan plays a warm up one-day game there, against India ‘A’, March 30.