The first batch of 15 players from the Indian cricket team left for America today, May 25th, for the ICC T20 World Cup tournament to be held in the coming month of June in America and the West Indies.
The players from six franchises who were out of the 2024 IPL before May 19 left Mumbai Airport. The rest of the players will leave for America in the second batch on May 27.
Apart from Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, Suryakumar Yadav, Mohammad Siraj, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Akshar Patel, Shivam Dubey, Ravindra Jadeja, and Jaspreet Bumrah, Shubman will be part of the first batch leaving for the US on Saturday. Gill has left. It is curious that Virat Kohli will not appear this time. The rest of the players, Yassav Jaiswal, Sanju Samson, Yuzvendra Chahal, and reserves Avesh Khan, Khalil Ahmed, and Rinku Singh, will leave with the second batch on May 27. BCCI sources said that Hardik Pandya will also leave for the USA on the same day.
Millions of fans have wished the Indian team good luck for the T20 World Cup tournament. Thousands of fans stood in front of the Mumbai airport. Some fans stood on the airport premises and wished them well. Millions of fans shared the photo on their respective social media accounts and wished “Win India.”