Married cricket star Andre Nel told me he was single, says girlfriend

Far from being single, as she claims he had told her, the Test star is married with a child on the way back home in South Africa.

Now two more apparent lovers have come forward, one in London and one in Durban, claiming the cricketer "told us the same lies" about his marital status.

Nel, 33, who played 36 Test matches for South Africa, met Jelena Kultiasova at the West End's Movida club on September 3. He is alleged to have told the 34-year-old Latvian that he had been on his own for two years.

The pair started an affair, spending nights together at his two-bedroom flat in Mortlake.

When it was time to fly back to his native land for the cricket season, Nel allegedly promised his lover that he would return after six months to start up all over again.

But Kultiasova claims she checked him out online and found, to her horror, he had married Deanne in 2004 and that his wife was now pregnant with their first child.

The wedding received widespread coverage at the time because Nel had been forced to delay it for a day so he could complete a Test match against the West Indies.

The Latvian said she confronted Nel over the phone "and told him then that I wasn't going to get myself involved in this situation and we were done". She contacted South Africa's Times because she felt so "hurt and deceived".

Kultiasova has provided texts, voice messages and pictures of herself and Nel together in London to The Times.

She said that after meeting at the Movida club "we exchanged numbers and he called me that night to see if I got home okay".

She added: "He kept calling and texting me to meet him that night, so we did and went back to his place."

When presented with the details of the affair Nel first denied it, before eventually saying: "Yes we did have sex twice, or three times, possibly — and that's it, honestly."

He added: "I have told my wife. She is very angry but this is an issue I need to sort out as quietly as possible."