This was the most expensive divorce in the world of cricket, the cricketer had to pay 90 crores

These days, the divorce case of Indian star cricketer Hardik Pandya with Natasha Stankovic is in the headlines. There are also discussions about how much money he will have to pay as compensation after the divorce. The most expensive divorce in the cricket world happened about 20 years ago. In which the legendary cricketer had to pay Rs 100 crore.

In the world of cricket, the cricketers who had famous divorces in the last 20 years include legendary cricketers like Shane Warne, Mohammad Azharuddin, Shikhar Dhawan, Shoaib Malik, Dinesh Karthik, Kevin Pietersen, Graeme Smith, Imran Khan, Vinod Kambli, Michael Clarke and Sanath Jayasuriya.

In the world of cricket, players from only two countries are generally considered the richest, they are cricketers from India and Australia. Some Australian cricketers have such huge houses and properties that anyone would be surprised. However, now Indian cricketers are also not far behind them.

The cricket world was shocked by the huge amount of divorce money
We will also tell you that cricketers do not have many divorces. However, there was one cricketer whose divorce alimony amount was so huge that the cricket world was shocked.

As amazing as he is on the field, he is equally chaotic off it
This famous cricketer was Australia’s Shane Warne, who was as amazing a spinner on the field as his life off the field was full of chaos. He got divorced in the year 2005 when his ex-wife Simone Callaghan decided to divorce him after he cheated on her many times. Their marriage lasted only ten years. By then, Shane Warne and Simone had three children.

Shane Warne and his estranged wife Simone Callaghan.

married his childhood love
The biggest thing was that Simone and Warne grew up almost together. She was his childhood love. Despite this, Warne kept cheating on her in his married life. When this marriage broke, Warne’s parents were the most saddened, who held their son responsible for this.

had to pay so much compensation
The divorce case lasted for about 6 months and Shane Warne gave $10 million (Rs 90 crores) to his ex-wife Simone as divorce compensation.

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Then he was richer than Sachin Tendulkar
However, if we look at it as per today’s standards, this amount would have definitely been double. Warne was the richest cricketer in the world then. He used to earn much more money than India’s Sachin Tendulkar. Apart from cricket, he used to get a huge amount from outside contracts. Currently, Sachin Tendulkar is the richest cricketer in the cricket world.

love life is very strange
Cricket legend Shane Warne’s professional life as a cricketer was as amazing as his love life was strange. He kept getting caught in one love scandal after another. Shane Warne himself later admitted in a documentary that he cheated on Simone not once but several times.

After the divorce, Shane Warne got engaged to actress Elizabeth Hurley but this too broke. Warne was considered the most talented spin bowler in his cricket career.

There was no shortage of money and property
By the way, even after paying so much money in the divorce, Shane Warne still had a lot of wealth and property. After this, he opened a very luxurious restaurant and bar in Australia.

When he died in March 2022, he had huge assets. According to media reports, at the time of his death, he had assets worth 50 million dollars i.e. about 400 crores.

The most expensive divorce was in another sport
Well, if we talk about the most expensive divorce in the world of sports, then the name of basketball star Michael Jordan will come up. When Michael divorced his wife Juanita after 17 years of marriage, he paid a compensation of 168 million dollars, which is more than 1500 crore rupees.

When golf legend Tiger Woods divorced Elin Nordegren after seven years of marriage, he had to pay her $100 million, or around Rs 800 crore, as separation compensation.

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