MUMBAI: The newly crowned T20 World Cup winners will hold an open bus parade with a small gathering at the Wankhede Stadium Mumbai to celebrate their 2024 title win in a similar manner as of the Dhoni-led Team India victory in 2007 during the first ever T20 World cup. Delta had a direct flight from Barbados to Delhi on Wednesday night for Indian cricketers, who have been stranded here for the past three days due to hurricane Beryl.
Rohit and company are expected to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi over breakfast when they arrive in New Delhi early on Thursday. After that, team India will board a chartered plane going back to Mumbai. Focus shifted back towards it when India won the first edition of Twenty20 ICC World Cup in 2007; players went on an open bus parade around Mumbai.
Parami was informed by an insider that a victory parade is being arranged by Board of Control for Cricket In India (BCCI) at Wankhede stadium for tomorrow evening. Details would be shared later once final plans were made. Fortunately, some news has leaked out about what’s happening at Wankhede Stadium.
The national team of India arrived at Mumbai airport where they were driven towards Wankhede Stadium via roadways. A kilometer away from this place, they will proceed through an open bus drive up to Wankhede and stage a brief ceremony where Rohit Sharma, captain of Indian cricket team, hands it over to Jay Shah, secretary of BCCI.
India beat South Africa by seven runs in the final match of ICC T20 2024 held in Barbados last Saturday which ended their agonizing wait of 11 years for an international tournament trophy and 17 years for T20 World Cup. That happened on Saturday after defeating South Africa by just seven runs during a thrilling final played at Bridgetown’s Kensington Oval.
Jay Shah helps stranded India media in Barbados to fly out with Indian team
In a generous move, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary, Jay Shah offered assistance to about 20 of the Indian media personnel who were stuck in Barbados by allowing them to join the Indian cricket squad on its special chartered flight from Barbados to Delhi. Barbados has been on high alert due to the Hurricane Beryl threat in the island nation since Sunday.
