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Andrew Strauss Sets Dec. 17 South Africa Wedding That Will Overlap Ashes Start

He announced the plan on a Sky Sports podcast to underline a preference for a small, family ceremony.

Overview

  • The former England captain will marry Antonia Linnaeus-Peat on December 17 in Franschhoek, about 50 miles east of Cape Town.
  • Strauss confirmed only their families are invited, and the timing means he will miss the start of the Ashes in Australia next week.
  • He shared the details on the Sky Sports Cricket Podcast after planning the event privately.
  • Linnaeus-Peat, 30, is a former PR executive and now a company director who grew up in Hong Kong and attended St Mary’s Calne.
  • Strauss founded the Ruth Strauss Foundation in 2019 after his first wife Ruth died in 2018, and its annual Red for Ruth day remains a fixture in the cricket calendar.