Dinesh Karthik Love Story: Indian cricketer Dinesh Karthik's international career has been full of ups and downs. Karthik recently participated in IPL 2024 and later announced his retirement from all formats. As much as cricketers make headlines for their performance on the field, their personal life remains in the news as much. Dinesh Karthik's story is similar. He got married at the age of only 21. But then something happened in his life which he would not have even expected.

Childhood love betrayed me

Let us tell you that Dinesh Karthik married his childhood friend Nikita Vanzara in 2007 at the age of just 21. But their marriage ended after a few years. His first wife Nikita had an affair with Murali Vijay, who was Karthik's teammate in the Tamil Nadu team. Karthik was completely shattered after the betrayal in his first marriage. When Dinesh came to know about Murali and Nikita's affair, he divorced Nikita. At that time Nikita was about to become a mother and after the divorce, Nikita married Murali.

Falling in love again after a broken heart

Kartik's life was facing so many problems that he was even dropped from the Indian team due to mental stress. But the very next year after the divorce, he met Deepika Pallikal. Deepika is a squash player by profession and represents India at the international level. According to the information, both of them used to take fitness training from the same coach. This is where their love story started.

The two got engaged in 2013 and after dating each other for about two years, they got married on 18 August 2015. Dinesh and Deepika have twin sons, named Kabir and Jian. With the arrival of Deepika, good changes started coming in the life of the Indian cricketer. Even after so many years of marriage, this couple is very happy with each other and often shares their beautiful pictures with fans on social media.

Such was DK's career

Dinesh Karthik made his Test and ODI debut for Team India in 2004. He started his career in front of legends like Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Sourav Ganguly. He has played 26 Tests (1025 runs), 94 ODIs (1752 runs) and 60 T20 Internationals (686 runs) for India. In IPL, he has scored 4842 runs in 257 matches.