HURRICANE BERYL DELAYS VICTORIOUS INDIAN TEAM'S RETURN, 70-MEMBER TEAM STRANDED IN BARBADOS
Hurricane Beryl, the first hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic season, has delayed the victorious Indian team's return to the country. According to reports, the hurricane had intensified with maximum sustained winds of 210 kmph, thus making air travel extremely unsafe. While the Indian team was supposed to return by Tuesday, now their return will be delayed by at least a day.
The Category 4 hurricane was about 570km east-southeast of Barbados and there are reports that the airport in Bridgetown will shut in the evening.
The Indian team was supposed to take an Emirates flight from New York via Dubai.
Related News |"The team was supposed to leave from here (Bridgetown) to New York and then reach India via Dubai. But now the plan is to get a charter flight straight from here to Delhi. A meeting with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also being considered," a source told PTI.
The Indian contingent, including support staff, families and officials, consists of about 70 members. Tropical storm-force winds are expected to reach the Windward Islands in North America on late Sunday or early Monday.
The early timing of the season’s first hurricane is unusual, given the average date for the first hurricane is August 11, according to a report in CNN. As of 8 p.m. ET (5:30 am IST), Beryl was about 200 miles southeast of Barbados, heading west.
Related News |“A life-threatening storm surge will raise water levels by as much as 6 to 9 feet above normal tide levels in areas of onshore flow near where the eye makes landfall in the hurricane warning area,” the National Hurricane Center said.
India had ended their 11-year wait for an ICC trophy on Saturday, June 29, overcoming South Africa by seven runs in a thrilling contest to win the T20 World Cup for the second time.
Player of the match Virat Kohli smashed a 59-ball 76 to guide India to 176/7 before Hardik Pandya and his fellow bowlers restricted South Africa to 169/8 to lift the trophy they had last won in 2007.
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