Indian Cricket Team to Depart for T20 World Cup on May 25

The majority of the Indian cricket players, along with the jumbo support staff, are set to fly out to New York on May 25 for the T20 World Cup. The rest of the team will leave only after the IPL final on May 26.

Initially, members of teams failing to qualify for the IPL play-offs were supposed to leave for New York on May 21, two days after the final league game of the IPL on May 19. However, plans have since changed, and now the first batch will leave on May 25.

According to a BCCI source, “The likes of skipper Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya, Suryakumar Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Rishabh Pant, Arshdeep Singh, Axar Patel are some of the players along with support staff who are expected to leave on May 25.”

The source added, “Earlier, the departure date for the first batch was May 21 but since India is playing only one warm-up game (vs Bangladesh on June 1), the players will get to spend some extra days at home.”

Only those players who are part of the IPL final will stay back and will leave for New York on May 27. This schedule will also give the squad adequate time to reduce jet lag and have at least three to four quality net sessions before the Bangladesh warm-up game.

India will open their campaign against Ireland on June 5 in New York, followed by the marquee clash against Pakistan on June 9.

The Indian squad for the T20 World Cup includes Rohit Sharma (Captain), Hardik Pandya (Vice Captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (WK), Sanju Samson (WK), Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, and Mohd. Siraj.