Hyderabad: Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli, who is on paternity leave, changed his Twitter bio to "proud husband and father" on Monday.
Kohli made the change after he and his wife Anushka Sharma were blessed with a baby girl on January 11. The 32-year-old cricketer had shared the news on his social media handle
"We are thrilled to share with you that we have been blessed with a baby girl this afternoon. We thank you all for your love, prayers and good wishes.
"Anushka and the baby are both healthy and we are feeling beyond blessed to start this new chapter of our lives. We hope that you can respect our privacy at this time. Love, Virat," Kohli said.
The couple had also reached out to the paparazzi to not click photographs of their newborn daughter.
"As parents, we have a simple request to make to you. We want to protect the privacy of our child and we need your help and support," the couple said in the statement adding that they will share the "content" at the right time.
"While we will always ensure that you get all the content you need featuring us, we would request you to kindly not take or carry any content that has our child. We know that you will understand where we are coming from and we thank you for the same," they added.
Sharma and Kohli, both 32, recently celebrated their third wedding anniversary.
The couple first met on the sets of a commercial and dated for four years before getting married in a private ceremony in Italy on December 11, 2017.
Sharma announced her pregnancy in August last year.
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