{"id":10382,"date":"2016-07-17T05:16:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T05:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/?p=10382"},"modified":"2016-07-17T05:20:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T05:20:12","slug":"australian-batsman-usman-khawaja-gets-engaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/17\/australian-batsman-usman-khawaja-gets-engaged\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian batsman Usman Khawaja gets engaged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/usman.jpg\" alt=\"Usman Khawaja, Rachel McLellan, Cricket Australia, Rising Pune Supergiants, Cricket, Sports\" width=\"656\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s top-order batsman Usman Khawaja disclosed about his\u00a0engagement with long time girlfriend Rachel McLellan. Khawaja took to Instagram on Friday to share this news, the 29-year-old shared a happy snap with Rachel in New York during their vacation, along with announcement of their big news. \u00a0Khawaja captioned his image, \u201cExtremely excited to announce. I liked it, so I put a ring on it. With God\u2019s will @rachelmclellan and I are engaged #engaged #futuremrs #inshaallah\u201d In the same picture, Rachel showed off her engagement ring. The same picture was published by Rachel on her Instagram account with caption, \u201cNew York was even better than I expected, Uzzy asked me to marry him and of course I said yes! Can\u2019t wait to spend my life with this guy @usman_khawajy&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8;line-height: 0;margin-top: 40px;padding: 50.4166666667% 0;text-align: center;width: 100%\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0;padding: 0 4px\"><a style=\"color: #000;font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;line-height: 17px;text-decoration: none\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BH3bWbOB_X7\/\" target=\"_blank\">Extremely excited to announce. I liked it, so I put a ring on it. With God&#8217;s will @rachelmclellan and I are engaged. ?#engaged #futuremrs #inshaallah<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd;font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 17px;margin-bottom: 0;margin-top: 8px;overflow: hidden;padding: 8px 0 7px;text-align: center\">A photo posted by Usman Khawaja (@usman_khawajy) on Jul 14, 2016 at 7:53pm PDT<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The couple have been dating for quite some time and also frequently share their snaps on respective social media accounts. Several players sent their best wishes to the young player on his new journey through Twitter. One of them was Canberra Raiders rugby player Sam Williams who wrote, \u201cCongrats mate.\u201d Khawaja joins Aaron Finch in ranks of Aussie players recently pop this question. Finch, who is currently playing for Surrey in County Championship, announced his engagement to girlfriend Amy Griffiths in May during his stint with Gujarat Lions (GL) in Indian Premier League (IPL).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s top-order batsman Usman Khawaja disclosed about his\u00a0engagement with long time girlfriend Rachel McLellan. Khawaja took to Instagram on Friday to share this news, the 29-year-old shared a happy snap with Rachel in New York during their vacation, along with announcement of their big news. \u00a0Khawaja captioned his image, \u201cExtremely excited to announce. I liked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1924,"featured_media":10384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,8,170,140],"tags":[10,414,1465,613,408,1464],"class_list":["post-10382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-interesting-stories","category-cricket-news","category-updates","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-australia","tag-rachel-mclellan","tag-rising-pune-supergiants","tag-sports","tag-usman-khawaja"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10389,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10382\/revisions\/10389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}