Team India is scheduled to leave Barbados on Tuesday, July 2, on a special flight arranged by the BCCI. After winning the 2024 T20 World Cup by defeating South Africa, the team has been stranded in Barbados due to Hurricane Beryl, which hit the island.
Led by Rohit Sharma, the team has been restricted to their hotel as the hurricane strengthened from category 3 to category 4 on Monday, July 1. The Indian team had to remain in their hotel after the hurricane was predicted to make landfall in Barbados on Monday.
According to the latest update from India Today’s Vikrant Gupta, the team will depart from Barbados on Tuesday at 6 pm local time, which is approximately 3:30 am IST on Wednesday. They are expected to arrive in Delhi by 7:45 pm on Wednesday, July 3.
“Good news. The Indian team to finally fly out of Barbados on a special flight arranged by BCCI Tuesday 6pm local time. To land in Delhi around 7.45 pm Wednesday,” tweeted Vikrant Gupta.
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Barbados airport set to reopen on Tuesday
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley introduced before that she predicts the island nation’s airport turns into functional within the “next six to 12 hours,” finishing the shutdown because of a Category 4 hurricane.
“We hope, and we’re working towards later today. I don’t want to speak in advance of it, but I’ve literally been in touch with the airport personnel and they’re doing their last checks now and we want to resume to normal operations as a matter of urgency,” Mottley, who has been supervising relief operations on the ground, told PTI.
“There are a number of people who were due to leave yet last night late or today or tomorrow morning. And we want to make sure that we can facilitate those persons, so I would anticipate that within the next six to 12 hours that the airport will be open,” she said.
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