The World Champions are on their way home. After remaining stranded in a hurricane-hit Barbados since lifting the T20 World Cup, Rohit Sharma & Co have finally taken off from the Caribbean and will be in India on Thursday morning.
BCCI secretary Jay Shah, who himself was stuck in Barbados, and his team arranged a special charter flight – Air India Champions 24 World Cup – which took off around 4:50 am local time and will land in the Indian national capital on Thursday at around 6:20 am (IST).
Indian captain Rohit Sharma posed with the trophy along with Suryakumar Yadav and shared the picture on Instagram before leaving the Caribbean shores.
“Coming home,” posted India on Instagram.
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Shivam Dube also shared a picture with the cup and wrote, “Coming home with the special one.”
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The Indian squad, its support staff, the players’ families and some board officials are aboard the flight along with members of the travelling media contingent. The flight has been arranged by the BCCI. The Rohit Sharma-led side won the title after pulling off a thrilling seven-run win over South Africa in the final on Saturday.
The Boeing 777, which took off from New Jersey, USA on July 2, landed in Barbados around 2 am local time and the airport staff here stated that they had not seen a bigger plane land at the Grantley Adams International airport, which resumed its operations on Tuesday.
Earlier, the Indian team was scheduled to leave around 6 pm local time on July 2 and arrive at 7.45 pm (IST) on Wednesday but the departure was delayed as the plane landed late here.
The players are set to be felicitated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi within hours of returning to the country. Plans are also afoot to have a road show in Mumbai to honour the triumphant team, which ended a trophy drought of 11 years.
Hurricane Beryl is now headed towards Jamaica.
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