How Indian Team Celebrated T20 World Cup Win in Flight: The Indian cricket team finally managed to escape hurricane-ravaged Barbados and fly home in a special flight arranged by the BCCI.
It took the team 16 hours to reach New Delhi, with the plane landing on Thursday morning at 6:00 AM IST.
The BCCI shared a video of the team’s epic in-flight celebrations as they flew home from Barbados.
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Captain Rohit appears in the most funky attitude possible at the beginning of the video. The antics of Rohit during the flight had fans in splits. This is the video:
Hundreds of fans braved the rain to greet the winning team, who defeated South Africa by seven runs in the final in Bridgetown on Saturday of last week. While holding signs applauding their favorites and waving the national flag.
“We have waited for this moment for the past 13 years. The team has made us proud by winning the World Cup,” a fan, who claimed to have been waiting since 4:30 am in the morning said, referring to India’s last World Cup triumph which came back in 2011.
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Due to a shutdown brought on by Hurricane Beryl in Barbados. The team was unable to return home right away following their championship victory. Before the BCCI arranged for the private charter flight, they were sequestered in their hotel.
The Air India special charter flight AIC24WC — Air India Champions 24 World Cup — which left Barbados around 4:50 am local time on Wednesday arrived in Delhi at 6am (IST) on Thursday after a 16-hour non-stop journey.
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Along with the travelling media contingent, the Indian team, its support personnel. The players’ families, and a few BCCI executives were on the trip.
At the Indira Gandhi International Airport, tight security was put in place to control the throng. But it didn’t stop the supporters from cheering loudly and waving posters of captain Rohit Sharma, star batsman Virat Kohli, and departing head coach Rahul Dravid.
The players were transported to their hotel by two busses that were parked outside the T3 Terminal. From there, they were scheduled to attend a reception at the Prime Minister’s house at nine in the morning.
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