{"id":9930,"date":"2025-12-07T13:20:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T07:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=668464"},"modified":"2025-12-07T13:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T07:51:08","slug":"smriti-mandhana-breaks-silence-wedding-is-called-off-her-first-statement-after-cheating-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/smriti-mandhana-breaks-silence-wedding-is-called-off-her-first-statement-after-cheating-rumours\/","title":{"rendered":"Smriti Mandhana breaks silence: \u201cWedding is called off\u201d \u2014 her first statement after cheating rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"212\" data-end=\"566\">India women\u2019s cricket star <strong data-start=\"239\" data-end=\"258\">Smriti Mandhana<\/strong> has finally addressed the swirling rumours about her personal life, confirming in a brief social media message that the <strong data-start=\"379\" data-end=\"410\">wedding has been called off<\/strong>. This marks her first public comment after days of speculation online, including unfounded cheating rumours that had taken over social media conversations.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"568\" data-end=\"723\">Mandhana chose not to elaborate on the reasons behind the decision but made it clear she is drawing a boundary as she moves forward with dignity and focus.<\/p>\n<hr data-start=\"725\" data-end=\"728\" \/>\n<h3 data-start=\"730\" data-end=\"756\"><strong data-start=\"734\" data-end=\"756\">The wedding fiasco<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"758\" data-end=\"1051\">The much-anticipated wedding of <strong data-start=\"790\" data-end=\"809\">Smriti Mandhana<\/strong> and singer-composer <strong data-start=\"830\" data-end=\"848\">Palash Muchhal<\/strong> unravelled into an unexpected family crisis on November 23. Celebrations in Sangli came to an abrupt halt when Mandhana\u2019s father, <strong data-start=\"979\" data-end=\"1000\">Srinivas Mandhana<\/strong>, reportedly showed <em data-start=\"1020\" data-end=\"1051\">\u201csymptoms of a heart attack.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1053\" data-end=\"1176\">Guests were left stunned as the family rushed him to Sarvhit Hospital, forcing all ceremonies to be postponed indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1178\" data-end=\"1461\">What was meant to be a joyous union quickly spiralled into a tense emotional episode, with both families prioritising Srinivas\u2019 recovery. Since then, they have maintained complete silence on any new wedding date, further fuelling speculation \u2014 until Mandhana\u2019s brief statement today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 A STATEMENT BY SMRITI MANDHANA \ud83d\udea8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HAoHLlSIHt\">pic.twitter.com\/HAoHLlSIHt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CricCrazyJohns\/status\/1997572862476169686?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr data-start=\"1463\" data-end=\"1466\" \/>\n<h3 data-start=\"1468\" data-end=\"1503\"><strong data-start=\"1472\" data-end=\"1503\">Professional rise continues<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"1505\" data-end=\"1596\">Despite the personal setback, Mandhana\u2019s professional graph continues to rise impressively.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1598\" data-end=\"1786\">She was recently <strong data-start=\"1615\" data-end=\"1680\">retained by Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) for \u20b973.5 crore<\/strong> at the <strong data-start=\"1688\" data-end=\"1713\">WPL 2026 Mega Auction<\/strong>, remaining the franchise\u2019s most valuable retention and their first pick.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1788\" data-end=\"2021\">Mandhana, who famously led RCB to their <strong data-start=\"1828\" data-end=\"1862\">historic WPL 2024 championship<\/strong>, is expected to continue as captain. Her form has been exceptional: in the <strong data-start=\"1938\" data-end=\"1964\">Women\u2019s World Cup 2025<\/strong>, she finished as the <strong data-start=\"1986\" data-end=\"2015\">second-highest run-scorer<\/strong> with:<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"2023\" data-end=\"2143\">\n<li data-start=\"2023\" data-end=\"2052\">\n<p data-start=\"2025\" data-end=\"2052\"><strong data-start=\"2025\" data-end=\"2050\">434 runs in 9 matches<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"2053\" data-end=\"2075\">\n<p data-start=\"2055\" data-end=\"2075\"><strong data-start=\"2055\" data-end=\"2067\">Average:<\/strong> 54.25<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"2076\" data-end=\"2102\">\n<p data-start=\"2078\" data-end=\"2102\"><strong data-start=\"2078\" data-end=\"2094\">Strike rate:<\/strong> 99.08<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"2103\" data-end=\"2143\">\n<p data-start=\"2105\" data-end=\"2143\"><strong data-start=\"2105\" data-end=\"2143\">Two half-centuries and one century<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"2145\" data-end=\"2277\">Her latest social media post signals a renewed sense of clarity \u2014 <strong data-start=\"2211\" data-end=\"2276\">professionally focused, personally healing, and widely adored<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India women\u2019s cricket star Smriti Mandhana has finally addressed the swirling rumours about her personal life, confirming in a brief\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":32452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4057],"class_list":["post-9930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-top-stories"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}