Smriti Mandhana's Father Suffers Heart Attack; Wedding With Palash Muchhal Deferred

Indian women’s cricketer Smriti Mandhana’s father, Shrinivas, suffered a heart attack at the Mandhana family’s farmhouse in Samdol, Sangli. Mandhana was supposed to get married to music composer Palash

Muchhal at the venue on Sunday, but it has now been indefinitely postponed.

According to the family, Mr. Shrinivas’s health deteriorated on Sunday morning, and he was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance. His condition is stable, but the doctors have prescribed that he stay in the hospital for some time.

Mandhana’s manager, Tuhin Mishra, confirmed that Mandhana has postponed the wedding ceremony indefinitely till Mr. Shrinivas gets better.

“Today morning, when Smriti’s father, Mr. Shrinivas Mandhana, was having his breakfast, his health started to worsen,” Mishra told the media on Sunday. “We waited for a while because we thought it might be something normal and he’d get better. But it kept getting worse. We thought we wouldn’t take a risk and called up the ambulance. He has been taken to the hospital and is under observation. Smriti Mandhana, as you know, is very, very close to her father. So she decided that till the time he’s not okay, this marriage, which was supposed to happen today, is postponed indefinitely.”

“The doctors have said that he’d need to stay in the hospital till the time he gets okay… I mean, we are all also in a bit of shock. We all want him to recover soon. Like I said, Smriti is very clear. She wants her father to be better first before thinking about the wedding,” he added.

Muchhal got engaged with Mandhana at the DY Patil Cricket Stadium — the venue where Smriti and the Indian women’s team won the 2025 World Cup — recently.

Mr. Shrinivas is an ex-cricketer. He represented Sangli at the district level and wanted to pursue the sport professionally, but couldn’t due to a lack of support.

He gave that support to his son, Shravan, and Smriti, with the latter going on to become one of the most successful cricketers in India.