Kuldeep Yadav, a Star India bowler, is due to marry his childhood friend Vanshika on March 14 at a resort in Mussoorie, followed by a spectacular wedding event in Lucknow on March 17. According to media sources, Kuldeep postponed his wedding, which was initially slated for November 2025, to focus on helping India win the T20 World Cup in 2026. The couple, who are both from Kanpur and grew up only 3 kilometers apart, were engaged last year at a Lucknow hotel. Vanshika is currently a LIC employee.

Despite the team's success, Kuldeep featured just once during the T20 World Cup, returning tidy figures of 1/14 against arch-rivals Pakistan in the group stage. Meanwhile, the spinner's father, Ram Singh Yadav, visited Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath last week to personally extend a wedding invitation.

The wedding is expected to be a star-studded affair, attended by top BCCI officials along with several current and former cricketers. Kuldeep's long-time coach, Kapil Dev Pandey, confirmed that the festivities will kick off on March 13 with the haldi and mehendi ceremonies at a resort in Mussoorie.

Meanwhile, Kuldeep expressed delight at Team India's T20 World Cup 2026 final win over New Zealand and hailed it as an "important victory". He also expressed happiness for Indian opener Sanju Samson's recent success."This was a significant victory. The competition went really well for us, and we had been preparing for it for quite some time. This is why you play cricket. Every time you compete in an ICC competition, you hope to win the trophy. I applaud the team and thank our fans for their support. I am really pleased for Sanju Samson, who did admirably. I've been sharing my cricketing journey with him since the Under-12s, and I'm thrilled to see him reap the benefits of his years of hard effort."