Team India returns home: Rohit Sharma led squad meets PM Modi | Watch

The broadside was incapable to caput backmost location instantly aft the rubric triumph owed to a shutdown forced by hurricane Beryl successful Barbados. They were cocooned successful their edifice earlier the BCCI caput Jay Shah made arrangements for a peculiar charter flight.

The Air India peculiar charter formation AIC24WC -- Air India Champions 24 World Cup -- which near Barbados astir 4:50am section clip connected Wednesday arrived successful Delhi astatine 6am (IST) connected Thursday aft a 16-hour non-stop journey.

Heavy information was deployed to support the assemblage successful cheque astatine the Indira Gandhi International airdrome but that did small to dampen the spirits arsenic fans cheered enthusiastically holding up posters of prima batter Virat Kohli, skipper Rohit Sharma and outgoing caput manager Rahul Dravid.

Two buses were stationed extracurricular the T3 Terminal to ferry the players to ITC Maurya Sheraton, wherever they were greeted by dhol and accepted Bhangra dancers.

Most of them, including skipper Rohit Sharma, all-rounder Hardik Pandya, Suryakumar Yadav and Rishabh Pant, shook a limb with the assembled dancers, giving them a representation of a lifetime.

Even the on-duty information unit had smiles connected their faces arsenic the players fto their hairsbreadth down aft the agelong journey, shook hands with everyone who wanted to and moved into their rooms aft cutting a barroom that was kept acceptable for them.

The squad won the state its 2nd T20 satellite title, ending an 11-year hold for an ICC trophy, connected Saturday. India's erstwhile ICC rubric was successful 2013 erstwhile it won the Champions Trophy nether Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

Its earlier World Cup titles came successful 1983 (ODI), 2007 (T20) and 2011 (ODI).

After gathering the Prime Minister, the players volition alert to Mumbai to enactment successful an unfastened autobus triumph parade followed by a felicitation ceremonial astatine the Wankhede Stadium.

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Published: 04 Jul 2024, 11:16 AM IST