Shortly after Shoaib Malik, the former captain of the Pakistan cricket team, announced his second marriage to actress Sana Javed, a relative of Malik's first wife, the former tennis player from India, Sania Mirza, claimed that the tennis star had unilaterally divorced her husband. According to a family source who spoke to PTI, "it was a 'khula,'" which alludes to a Muslim woman's unreserved right to divorce her spouse. It's interesting to note that Sania's father, Imran Mirza, was quoted in the original PTI report using the identical quotation.
At the height of rumors of Shoaib and Sania's problems, the news breaks. Over the past few years, the famous couple has hardly been spotted together. There was no formal confirmation of the split, despite several reports claiming as much. In fact, during Pakistan TV appearances last year, Malik repeatedly sidestepped queries about Sania. In April 2010, Shoaib and Sania, the Indian player's hometown, tied the knot in Hyderabad. Prior to that, they had resided in Dubai. In October 2018, the couple became parents to a baby named Ihzaan Mirza Malik. With Sania, he remains. It is noteworthy because this is Sana Javed's second marriage. In 2020, among the coronavirus pandemic, she tied the knot with musician Umair Jaiswal in a modest ceremony. She has acted in films from Pakistan as well as some popular drama serials.
However, information on their divorce surfaced two months prior. One of the best tennis players in India, Sania, declared her retirement last year. Throughout the course of her 20-year career, Sania won 43 WTA doubles titles and one singles trophy, making her regarded as a trailblazer for female athletes. Malik has played for Pakistan in 35 Tests, 285 ODIs, and 124 ODIs. He has yet to declare his retirement from T20Is, but he has amassed nearly 12,000 international runs and claimed over 200 wickets. In 2021, he participated in his final T20I match for Pakistan against Bangladesh.
