Indian T20 World Cup Winners to Join Open Bus Parade, Wankhede Event
The Indian cricket team that won the T20 World Cup will participate in an open bus road show on Thursday, which will be followed by a felicitation ceremony at the Wankhede Stadium.
The Indian squad is scheduled to arrive in New Delhi at 6:20 a.m. on Thursday after taking out on a leased airplane bearing the unique call sign AIC24WC, or Air India Champions 24 World Cup, from Grantley Adams International Airport in Barbados.
Hurricane Beryl caused the Indian squad’s departure to be delayed. But in the end, the team, its support personnel, the players’ families, a few board members, and traveling Indian media were able to depart Barbados on the early Wednesday morning (4:50 am local time) charter jet that the BCCI had organized.
“The team has left from Barbados on a special Air India flight hired by the BCCI. The Indian journalists who were stuck there (Barbados) are also coming on the same flight along with BCCI president (Roger Binny) and secretary (Jay Shah), who are looking after all the arrangements,” BCCI vice-president Rajeev Shukla told PTI.
“The flight will land at Delhi airport tomorrow 6 am. The team will meet PM Narendra Modi at 11 am at his residence. After this, the team will fly to Mumbai, where a ceremony has been organised.
“There will be a road show from Nariman Point in an open bus and later we will honour and felicitate the players with the prize money of Rs 125 crore as announced,” he added.
The cricket officials and the local authority are now finalising their preparations, but it is anticipated that the team would participate in an open bus road show from the famous Nariman Point to the Wankhede Stadium, which is also home to the BCCI headquarters.
For the Indian team members, there will also be a felicitation ceremony at the Wankhede.
A road show such to this one had place here fourteen years prior, following MS Dhoni’s team’s victory against Pakistan in the 2007 World T20 championship final in South Africa.
After defeating South Africa in the final on Saturday at the Kensington Oval by a thrilling seven runs, Rohit Sharma and his team were crowned champions.
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