Anushka-Virat wedding plan revealed

MILAN: A luxury hotel in Milan has revealed the plans about the much-anticipated wedding of Bollywood star Anushka Sharma and Indian cricket icon Virat Kohli.

Although the families have been tight-lipped on the matter, global media is buzz with the ‘wedding of the year’ as more details continue to surface.

According to Indian media, wedding celebrations have already kicked off in Tuscany and that a luxury hotel in Milan will actually host their wedding, which is supposed to take place on December 12th.

Earlier on, reports confirmed that Anushka's family guru had left for Italy for a wedding ceremony. Meanwhile, both Anushka and Virat left for Italy with their families on Thursday and Friday respectively.

Rumours of the wedding started swirling when Kohli pulled out of India´s limited-overs matches against Sri Lanka and Sharma also ducked out of her busy acting schedule in December.

Indian TV channels have gone into overdrive over what they have billed as the "wedding of the year".

"A heritage property within a resort in Tuscany is being decked up for the wedding," the Hindustan Times said on Sunday.

"Arrangements for a typically Punjabi wedding are reportedly being made by the wedding planner," the newspaper added, citing unnamed sources.

A grand reception is also planned in Mumbai on December 26.

There has been no confirmation from the couple.

The Indian captain has said he needed to rest because of his "massive workload", ahead of the national side´s tour of South Africa in January.

Kohli and Sharma, both 29, started dating in 2013 after they met during the filming of a shampoo advert.

The high-profile couple made their first public appearance a year later during a football match.

Kohli is one of the world´s highest-paid athletes and a huge star in cricket-crazy India, and Sharma is one of the top actresses in the multi-billion-dollar Indian film industry.

If the two stars do get hitched, theirs will be the latest in a list of Bollywood-cricket weddings.

From former India captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi and actress Sharmila Tagore to the recent Zaheer Khan-Sagarika Ghatge union, India has a long history of marriages between cricket players and movie stars.