Aussie cricketing great Glenn McGrath is engaged to his girlfriend of seven months, Sara Leonardi, 28.
The 40-year-old cricketer presented his Italian girlfriend with a beautiful diamond engagement ring last week.
"I can confirm that they're engaged, but that's about as much information as I can give you," McGrath's manager Warren Craig told the Sunday Herald Sun.
"They got engaged about a week ago.
"Glenn and Sara haven't spoken to any (magazines); there's been no story told or anything like that and they're not planning on speaking to anybody about the engagement."
Ms Leonardi didn't hide her engagement ring, which was sparkling on her wedding ring finger, as she walked with McGrath and his two children, James, 10, and Holly, 8, to a cafe near their Sydney home yesterday.
The family enjoyed lunch before visiting a bike shop in Cronulla.
The couple have enjoyed a whirlwind romance since announcing their relationship in January.
Ms Leonardi, an interior designer, met the former Australian cricketer at a party in Cape Town in April 2009, sparking a friendship, which blossomed into love later in the year.
McGrath, still raw from the death of his wife, Jane, in June 2008, said he hadn't believed he'd fall in love again.
But Ms Leonardi changed all that.
"After Jane passed away, I never thought that I could love another woman," McGrath said when his relationship with Sara became public.
"I was adamant about that. But I am in love with Sara, totally and completely and absolutely."
Since early in their relationship, McGrath had thought of Ms Leonardi as his future wife.
"I think marriage is definitely in our future," he said in an interview in February.
"I see Sara as my partner for the rest of my life ... I can't picture life without her."
The sports star was in South Africa while contracted to the Indian Premier League team, the Delhi Daredevils, when he met Ms Leonardi.
McGrath said their introduction was destiny.
"We were only there for a couple of nights and my teammate Paul Collingwood, the English one-day captain, knew a guy there who asked us to his house for drinks," he said.
"As it turned out, his girlfriend is a friend of Sara's and he asked her and a few girlfriends around for drinks, too. It was one of those situations where we weren't supposed to cross paths, but somehow we did."
It's been a bittersweet few weeks for the family, who marked the two-year anniversary of Jane's death last month.
Jane, who wed McGrath in 1999 and had two children to him, died on June 22, 2008, following a lengthy battle with breast cancer.
Ms Leonardi and McGrath have been regulars on the social scene since their first public appearance together in April at Royal Randwick's Doncaster Day in Sydney.
The couple were rumoured to have received about $200,000 this year after announcing their relationship in a magazine.
However, this time, his management says McGrath is keeping the details private.
No date has been set for the wedding, but insiders predict a short engagement.
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