India all-rounder Hardik Pandya on Sunday (May 31) caught everyone by surprise when he shared the delightful news that he and his wife Natasa Stankovic are going to have a baby soon. He made an announcement on Instagram and posted some pictures showing their journey as a couple.
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Two days later, Hardik also opened up on his first meeting with Natasa and how they decided to get engaged on December 31, 2019.
“My parents also didn’t know that I was getting engaged. Two days before (the engagement), I told Krunal. I told him, ‘I have had enough. I have found someone in my life who I love, and I am becoming better’. They (family) backed me and told ‘do whatever you want’,” the cricketer said while speaking to veteran commentator Harsha Bhogle on Youtube live.
When Bhogle enquired the Baroda lad whether Natasa was a fan of him, Hardik said: “She had no idea who I was.”
“I got her by talking. She saw someone in a hat at a place where I met her, wearing a hat, a chain, a watch, at 1 am. So she thought he is ‘alag prakaar ka aadmi aaya’ (different kind of person came),” he recalled about their first meeting.
“That is when I started talking to her, started knowing each other. Then, we started dating. Then got engaged on December 31,” the all-rounder further remarked.
Asked if Natasa is the one who corrects him when he makes a mistake, Hardik replied: “We don’t have that relationship. Someone who always corrects me, are four people. Now, Natasa comes and tells me in my room.”
Speaking about the four critical persons in the family, the 26-year-old added, “Krunal (Pandya), Pankhuri (Krunal’s wife), my sister-in-law, she is like the backbone of our family. My brother also Vaibhav. All these guys, we have a created one environment where there has to be someone who shows the real-life, not the bubble life.”
“We don’t like to do sugar coating. In our house, there is no Hardik Pandya the cricketer, Krunal Pandya, the cricketer. In our family, there are few things that are supposed to happen, and some are not,” he continued.
