3.5 Crore Chartered Flight: A report has revealed that the BCCI spent around Rs 3. 5 cr on booking a chartered flight for Team India to reach the West Indies. Instead of making the players travel by a commercial flight, BCCI decided to book a chartered plane from Manchester to Port of Spain. And that cost 3.5 Crore to the world’s richest cricket board. The team already is in Trinidad and will play the 1st ODI of the series on Friday.

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The team reached Trinidad on Tuesday-

The Chartered flight also accommodated players’ families who have traveled to the Caribbean too

The reason a chartered flight was booked for the team was not Covid-19

BCCI booked a flight spending 3.5 Crore as they were not getting required tickets in a Commercial Flight.

Rohit Sharma & Virat Kohli have not traveled with the team. Kohli has taken a break from the series. Rohit meanwhile has gone on a small vacation with the family and will join the team only in T20s.

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India Tour of West Indies

• The players have reached Trinidad & Tobago in a charter flight.
  They have been joined by Shubman Gill, Sanju Samson & Ruturaj Gaikwad.
• Shikhar Dhawan will lead the ODI squad in Rohit Sharma’s absence.
  Two other captains, Rishabh Pant and Jasprit Bumrah have also been rested while Bhuvneshwar Kumar continues to be a miss in the ODI squad

• For the T20 series, Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant, R Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Dinesh Karthik, Avesh Khan, and Harshal Patel will rejoin the squad.
• Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami have also been rested for the entire series.
• The players in the T20 squad have been granted a short vacation.
  Rohit Sharma with his family will travel to the Caribbean for a short vacation and will join the squad before the T20 series, starting July 29.
• Virat Kohli has been rested from the entire tour.

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