T20 World Cup 2026 has ended and Team India has once again become the champion. The Indian team won this title in the final held on March 8 in Ahmedabad. After becoming champions, the players of Team India have also returned to their respective homes. But the West Indies players, who were participating in this World Cup and were eliminated from the tournament on March 1, have not been able to reach home yet. After ICC’s efforts to send the Windies players, who were waiting to return to their country by charter plane for about 10 days, failed, the board has now made arrangements to send the players home by regular flight.
West Indies played its last match in the World Cup against India on March 1. West Indies had to face defeat in that match of Super-8 round, due to which the success of the Caribbean team in the tournament ended. But before the Windies players could return to their country, on 28 February, a day before that, Israel and America attacked Iran. After this, Iran retaliated by firing missiles and drones at US military bases in many Gulf countries, from UAE to Qatar, apart from Israel, and since then flights have been closed in these countries.
Most of the westbound flights from India pass through Dubai but due to closure of airspace, flights have been cancelled. Due to this, West Indies players are stranded. Since then, efforts were on from the ICC to arrange a charter plane for the West Indies team. But it got delayed again and again. In such a situation, the West Indies Cricket Board itself has now booked commercial flight tickets for the players and after about 10 days, the players and support staff have started returning to the country. The Windies Board also issued a statement and gave this information. The board said that some players had returned on March 10, while the rest would return on March 11 via Kolkata.
Not only the West Indies, but the South African team is also still in India and currently no arrangements have been made for their return to their country. South Africa played its last match in the semi-finals on March 4 and since then this team is in India. However, on the other hand, after being eliminated in the semi-finals on March 5, the England team left for their country by a special plane within the next 48 hours, due to which many questions were raised.