new York [USA]May 26 (ANI): The first batch of the Indian team, including captain Rohit Sharma and star pacer Jasprit Bumrah, arrived in New York ahead of the T20 World Cup warm-up match against Bangladesh on June 1.
Rohit Sharma took to Instagram and shared a selfie with all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja and defensive coach T Dilip after their arrival in New York.
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The first batch of Indian players left the Mumbai airport on Saturday evening.
Alongside Rohit and Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, head coach Rahul Dravid, batting coach Vikram Rathore, batsmen Shubman Gill, Ravindra Jadeja and Shivam Dubey, spinners Mohammed Siraj, Arshdeep Singh, Khaleel Ahmed and spinners Kuldeep Yadav and Axar Patel. He was arrested at the Mumbai airport.
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Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson and Yuzvendra Chahal, who ended their Indian Premier League (IPL) campaign with Rajasthan Royals (RR) after losing to Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) on Friday, are yet to join the team.
Kolkata Knight Riders batsman Rinku Singh, who is playing the IPL final against SRH in Chennai today and star batsman Virat Kohli, whose Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) team lost to RR in the Eliminator Friday, are also not connected to the team. team so far.
India's T20 World Cup campaign begins on June 5 against Ireland at the newly constructed International Cricket Stadium in Nassau County, New York. The India-Pakistan match will take place on June 9. They will then face the United States (June 12) and Canada (June 15) to conclude their Group A matches.
In the tournament, India aims to end their drought in the ICC Champions Trophy, having last won the ICC Champions Trophy in 2013. Since then, India has reached the final of the ICC Champions Trophy. world at 50 in 2023, as well as the semi-finals. final in 2013. 2015 and 2019, and the title match. ICC World Test Championship in 2021 and 2023, WC T20 final in 2014 and semi-finals in 2016 and 2022, but failed to win the ICC major trophy.
India are aiming to win their first WC T20 title since winning the inaugural edition of the tournament in 2007 in South Africa. In the last edition hosted in Australia in 2022, India lost to England by 10 wickets in the semi-final.
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