Cricketer Rishi Dhawan’s engagement in Mandi today

MANDI: Indian cricketer Rishi Dhawan will get engaged on Sunday in a local hotel here

Updated At : 06:46 AM Jan 22, 2017 IST

Cricketar Rishi Dhawan with his fiancee in Mandi. Photo: Jai Kumar

Dipender Manta

Tribune News Service

Mandi, January 21

Indian cricketer Rishi Dhawan will get engaged on Sunday in a local hotel here.

According to family sources, only close relatives are invited for the engagement ceremony wherein the cricketer, a resident of Mandi district, will get engaged with local girl Dipali Chauhan, an engineer by profession presently working at Gurgaon.

Talking to The Tribune, Dhawan said he met with his fiancée eight years ago during a Shivratri fair in Mandi and thereafter they started dating. “It is a great moment for both of us. We will get engaged tomorrow and the wedding will be held next year,” he said.

Dhawan, primarily an all-rounder who bats in the middle-order, played for Kings XI Punjab in the 2008 IPL. He was signed-up by the Mumbai Indians in 2013. He made his One Day International debut for India against Australia on January 17, 2016 where he performed exceptionally well. He made his Twenty20 International debut against Zimbabwe at Harare Sports Club on June 18, 2016.