Fact check: Did Australia’s Ellyse Perry propose to Pakistan batter Babar Azam? Here’s all you need to know

If you’ve been on social media lately, you’ve probably stumbled across that viral photo of Australia’s cricket star Ellyse Perry down on one knee in front of Pakistan’s former captain Babar Azam. The internet went wild with it. People started saying she had actually proposed to him during a Big Bash League match, and within hours, the picture was everywhere.

Reactions poured in; some fans were thrilled, some were confused, and some just went, “Wait, what?”

But here’s the honest truth: it didn’t happen.

The timing gives it away

The easiest way to tell the story is fake is to simply look at when everything supposedly happened. While that picture was doing the rounds, Babar was busy playing in the Big Bash League in Australia. Perry, meanwhile, had already wrapped up the Women’s Premier League and had gone back home, as reported by DNA. They weren’t even in the same city -forget being on the same ground. So the whole “proposal during the match” thing just doesn’t add up.

The picture itself feels odd

If you zoom in even a little, the image starts to fall apart. The lighting looks weird and uneven, the hands look slightly distorted, and the whole background doesn’t quite sit right. It has that AI-edited vibe written all over it. Plus, think about it, if such a dramatic proposal had actually happened, there would be videos, multiple photos, interviews… not just a single random picture floating around.

Why so many people believed it

Honestly, it’s not surprising it blew up. Perry and Babar are both huge names, and anything emotional or dramatic involving big players spreads like wildfire. People saw a surprising picture, hit share, and didn’t really stop to check whether it was real. Happens all the time on the internet.

Babar and rumours are not strangers

This also isn’t the first time Babar has found himself stuck in the middle of online gossip. Over the years, random photos and posts about him have gone viral again and again - many of them totally baseless. Fans get excited, no one fact-checks, and suddenly a rumour turns into “news.”

So what’s actually true?

Simple: Ellyse Perry did not propose to Babar Azam. The viral photo is edited, and the story is just another social-media rumour. It’s a good reminder that everything online isn’t real, no matter how convincing it looks at first glance. A quick fact-check can save you from believing (and spreading) complete nonsense.
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