Indian Trophy’s Homecoming delayed further: Landing in New Delhi on Thursday
India will have to wait further to welcome their heroes as Rohit Sharma’s World Cup-winning team’s homecoming has been further delayed. About 70 people of India, including Indian cricketers, their families, support staff, and top officials of BCCI have been stuck in Bridgetown and Barbados for last 3 days. They won the World Cup title on June 29 (IST), but have not been able to return home dur to Hurricane Beryl.
The Barbados airport remained closed for 2 days. It opened again inly on Wednesday morning (IST), but the Indian team will further have to wait to leave the premise. The special charter flight arranged by BCCI, which was expected to reach the Grantley Adams International Airport in Barbados at around 3 am on Wednesday (IST), has had a delay of four hours.
The original plan was to take a flight to the USA from Barbados and then fly straight to India via the UAE, but since the hurricane caused a delay of two days, the BCCI decided to arrange a charter flight to ensure the entire team along with their families reach home together. The flight had to be arranged from USA, which could be the possible reason for the delay.
The flight was expected to leave Bridgetown at 6 pm (local time) and land in Delhi on Wednesday at 7:45 pm (IST), but the Indian team is now most likely to reach New Delhi by 5 am (IST) on Thursday.
At 8:30 am on Wednesday, BCCI shared a post on X that said “It’s coming home”, suggesting that the team might be ready to depart from Barbados.
Upon their arrival, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will welcome the players, but the schedule of that event has not yet been decided.
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