NEW DELHI, Nov 27: An Indian mother of four children in Uttar Pradesh’s Burhanpur district says she is the wife of former Pakistan cricket captain Wasim Akram, Press Trust of India said on Sunday.

Krishna, a clerk in commercial tax department, claims to have accepted Wasim as her husband since she saw his performance on television during an India-Pakistan cricket match in 1999.

She has shunned her marriage with a retired government servant since declaring Pakistan’s cricket hero her husband.

“I am yet to meet him. Whether he accepts me or not, I will spend rest of my life as his wife,” PTI quoted Kirshna as saying on Saturday.

She claims that a ‘godly figure’ clad in white clothes had shown her Wasim’s face in her dreams telling her that it was that of her husband.

She claims to have started believing in the ‘godly figure’ following her family’s tremendous improvement in the financial condition after ‘he gave a fruit to eat’.

The change in Krishna’s behaviour has had little impact on her two sons and two daughters, her husband claims it has destroyed his family life.

In a quest to meet Wasim, Krishna had also paid a futile visit to the Pakistan cricketer’s ancestral village in Amritsar.

“Wherever he is, one day, I will meet him,” she said.

Krishna, who discarded the attire of a Hindu married woman in 1999, claims that she is unperturbed by the response she gets from her office or from the neighbourhood.

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