The members of the Indian cricket team have began to return home after a victorious ICC Champions Trophy campaign in Dubai. Head coach Gautam Gambhir landed in Delhi on Tuesday while captain Rohit Sharma returned home in Mumbai as well. Unlike the T20 World Cup 2024, where the whole Indian team had returned home in a charter flight, players and the members of the support staff are arriving in several cities from Dubai at different timings. The Indian had an open bus parade and felicitation ceremony on the Wankhede stadium last yr, after the team was crowned T20 World Cup winners, but such an act is not scheduled to happen this time, least in the approaching days.
With the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 campaign set to start on March 22, the players are expected to hitch their respective camps in a couple of days. The players, understandably, want to modify off for just a little while, rejuvenate, before they join their teams ahead of the brand new season. In actual fact, a number of the IPL franchises have already began their camps ahead of the 18th season of the T20 league.
Hence, the logistical headache and lack of respiratory space between the players’ return and the beginning of the IPL doesn’t allow the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to schedule a T20 World Cup-like program in the approaching days.
The opposite players too left Dubai for his or her destinations, a few of them, as per reports, choosing short vacations abroad before returning to the country to begin their preparations for the upcoming IPL campaign.
India bagged their third Champions Trophy title, the primary team to achieve this, by defeating Recent Zealand by 4 wickets in the ultimate played on the Dubai International Stadium on Sunday.
The players decided to disperse individually because there was no elaborate celebration awaiting the team on its arrival home after winning the 2025 Champions Trophy.
Mumbai Indians, who’ve Rohit Sharma and Hardik Pandya of their ranks, began their pre-tournament rehearsal on the Wankhede Stadium on Sunday. Sunrisers Hyderabad, who’ve the services of Mohammed Shami, had kicked off their pre-season camp earlier this month.
With IANS Inputs
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