Team India Arrival Live Updates: Tell the world the champions are finally home. Departing from Barbados after Hurricane Beryl, Rohit Sharma’s Team India touched down in New Delhi on Thursday. Rohit and Co. have returned home after India’s title-winning campaign at the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 in the Caribbean. Ending the long wait for an ICC title, Rohit’s Team India outclassed South Africa by seven runs in the thrilling final at Kensington Oval in Barbados on Saturday.
The Indian team departed for Delhi aboard a charter flight from the Grantley Adams International Airport yesterday. Members of the Indian team were stranded for three days due to a category-four hurricane in Barbados. Air India’s special charter flight, named after the winning squad, Air India Champions 24 World Cup (AIC24WC), left the Caribbean island at 4:50 a.m. local time and landed in the national capital at around 6:20 a.m. (IST) today.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) arranged the charter flight for the Indian squad, support staff, the players’ families, board officials and members of the travelling media contingent after the departure of the Indian squad was delayed due to Hurricane Beryl. BCCI vice-president Rajeev Shukla revealed that Indian journalists, who were stuck in Barbados, boarded the same flight along with BCCI president Roger Binny and secretary Jay Shah.
After receiving a heroes’ welcome, Rohit’s Team India will next meet PM Narendra Modi at 11 am at his residence. After attending the breakfast session, Rohit’s Team India will leave for Mumbai. A road show from Nariman Point in an open bus will occur later in the evening. A felicitation event at the Wankhede Stadium will follow the victory bus parade.
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Thu, 04 Jul 2024 06:49 AM
Team India Arrival Live Updates: Virat Kohli is the first man to walk out
Team India Arrival Live Updates: Right, the fans at T3 get a glimpse of their heroes at last. Virat Kohli was the first man out, he goes and takes his place inside the bus before the rest of the players. Soon we see Mohammed Siraj followed by Arshdeep Singh, bowling coach Paras Mhambrey and a few more members of the Indian staff.
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Thu, 04 Jul 2024 06:44 AM
Team India Arrival Live Updates: The majesty of Jasprit Bumrah
Team India Arrival Live Updates: This T20 World Cup marks the first time that the player of the tournament won that award without scoring a single run. T20s are supposed to be a batter’s game and yet, nobody would be able to argue against Bumrah winning this award. He has been sensational in all formats since returning to full-time cricket in August 2023 and in this World Cup, well he was pretty much a cheat code for Rohit Sharma. Bumrah didn’t concede a single six all tournament long, maintained a scarcely believable economy rate of 4.17 in the eight matches that he played and took 15 wickets.
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Thu, 04 Jul 2024 06:41 AM
Team India Arrival Live Updates: ‘It’s home’, says Team India in a video that every Indian fan wanted to see
Team India Arrival Live Updates: The BCCI has just posted a video with the caption “It’s home”. Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah, Shivam Dube, Yuzvendra Chahal and Ravindra Jadeja can be seen staring down at the camera lens and smiling. No prizes for guessing what the camera lens is supposed to be and what they are smiling at. They then pick up the T20 World Cup trophy from beside the camera and kiss it
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Thu, 04 Jul 2024 06:38 AM
Team India Arrival Live Updates: The retirements after the final
Team India Arrival Live Updates: Virat Kohli, who had struggled to get any runs throughout the tournament, won the player of the match after bailing India out of a horrible start by scoring 76 in 59 balls. He said in the presentation ceremony that this was his last T20I match, thus ending what is probably the greatest T20I career in the nearly two-decade history of this format. Indian captain Rohit Sharma then told reporters in the post-match press conference that he has played his last T20I as well. Ravindra Jadeja announced his retirement from the format the next day.
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Thu, 04 Jul 2024 06:26 AM
Team India Arrival Live Updates: Remembering that final
Team India Arrival Live Updates: To say it was an emotional victory for India on June 29 in Barbados is an understatement. Apart from the fact that most of these players were part of the teams that experienced disappointments in a number of major ICC tournaments in the recent past, it was a game in which India seemed down and out going into the last five overs, with Heinrich Klaasen smashing 24 runs in the 15th over off Axar Patel and brought it down to South Africa needing just 30 runs to win off the last 30 balls. And then, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh and Hardik Pandya led the way as India put up the most extraordinary of chokehold on the flow of runs for South Africa. It came down to the Proteas needing 16 to win off the last over. Pandya started it with a wide full toss, David Miller went big downtown but Suryakumar Yadav swooped in, caught the ball, threw it back up in the air when his momentum took him over the boundary pads, came back in and completed what has now become an iconic catch. Pandya conceded just eight more runs in that over. Cue tears and pandemonium.
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Thu, 04 Jul 2024 06:21 AM
Team India Arrival Live Updates: The crowd swells outside Delhi T3
Team India Arrival Live Updates: News has filtered through that the team has arrived and suddenly, both the crowd and security outside Terminal 3 has swelled in Delhi. The flight itself can still be seen taxiing around after landing and so any cheers that you may be hearing there for the next 10 minutes at least are false alarms.
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Thu, 04 Jul 2024 06:18 AM
Team India Arrival Live Updates: Tight security for the bus parade in Mumbai
Team India Arrival Live Updates: Team India Arrival Live Updates: It should come as no surprise that there will be tight security all along the stretch between the NCPA and the Wankhede Stadium which is just over 2km. That may not mean that fans can’t get a glimpse of their favourite players but expect the marine drive to be closed off for that period. Mumbai folks, if you are travelling for this, best would be to use public transport or cabs or else all the best find parking spots. Unless of course you are among the very few in the world that have an apartment in that area. Good for you if that is the case.
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Thu, 04 Jul 2024 06:11 AM
Team India Arrival Live Updates: The Indian team has landed!
Team India Arrival Live Updates: It’s official, the eagle has landed. The chartered flight containing the Indian team has landed at the Delhi airport. There may yet be time for the players and staff to walk out of the terminal though. Remember that the BCCI has also brought back the Indian journalists who were there in Barbados in the same flight
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Thu, 04 Jul 2024 06:07 AM
Team India Arrival Live Updates: The open top bus parade in Mumbai
Team India Arrival Live Updates: The Indian team is expected to arrive in Mumbai at 4pm. The open top bus parade is expected to start approximately at 5:00pm from the National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA), which is situated at Nariman Point and they will go all the way across the Marine Drive over the next two hours with the parade ending at the Wankhede Stadium. Those who know Mumbai would tell you that it would take just over half an hour to walk that distance but this is an open top bus parade and there are expected to be crores of fans on the road.
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Thu, 04 Jul 2024 06:02 AM
Team India Arrival Live Updates: Fans gathered at Delhi T3
Team India Arrival Live Updates: It is the wee hours of a Thursday morning but that doesn’t matter. Scores of fans are waiting at Delhi’s Terminal 3, from where the Indian team is expected to walk out with the trophy. They will be spending the first half of the day at the national capital as they are meeting Prime Minister Modi before heading over to Mumbai.
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Thu, 04 Jul 2024 05:46 AM
Team India arrival live updates: Indian cricket team’s full schedule today
Team India arrival live updates: Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and the other T20 World Cup-winning Indian cricketers will land in New Delhi in a few minutes. Before that, let’s take a look at their schedule for today…
- Scheduled arrival at Delhi airport around 6:20 am
- Drive to meet PM Narendra Modi
- Breakfast and felicitation ceremony with PM Modi
- Fly to Mumbai via a chartered flight
- A victory parade from from 5 pm onwards in Mumbai
- The parade is likely to start at Marine Drive and end at the Wankhede Stadium
- Felicitation ceremony at Wankhede
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Thu, 04 Jul 2024 03:19 AM
Team India returns home LIVE updates: India unites in joy as World Cup heroes are home!
Team India returns home LIVE updates: Virat Kohli hit a match-winning 76 to help India defeat South Africa in the final of the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 on Saturday. After lifting the famous trophy, Rohit Sharma’s Team India was stranded for three days in Barbados due to Hurricane Beryl. The BCCI arranged an Air India special charter flight (AIC24WC) for the Indian squad, its support staff, the players’ families and members of the travelling media contingent. The special flight with call sign AIC24WC is set to touch dow in New Delhi.
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