Rohit Sharma and team members with Head Coach Rahul Dravid land in New York
Rohit Sharma and team members with Head Coach Rahul Dravid land in New York
Captain Rohit Sharma with team members including Head Coach Rahul Dravid have landed in New York for the T20 World Cup..BCCI’s official social media handle shared a video of the same.
Rohit, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel and traveling reserves Shubman Gill and Khaleel Ahmed reached today.
Virat Kohli is likely to join the team by end of May before the
warm-up fixture, vs Bangladesh on June 1.
A source close to the development reveals that whether he plays or not in the warm-up will be management’s call – whether they feel there is enough gap between him landing and the warm-up fixture.
Reportedly, all teams featuring the players from India’s 15-man World Cup squad were knocked out of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 before the final. The showpiece event gets underway next month with India beginning their campaign against Ireland.
India are placed in Group A, alongside Ireland, hosts USA, Canada and arch-rivals Pakistan.
The second batch of players comprising Sanju Samson, Yuzvendra Chahal, Avesh Khan and Yashasvi Jaiswal left on Tuesday morning to join the squad.
Hardik Pandya who was in London has directly reached New York. India’s premier all-rounder, Mumbai Indians, was on vacation after his IPL side crashed out in the league stages.
India will begin their campaign against Ireland.
News Edit K.V.Raman
