Windies players book own flights out of India; charter plans fall through again

Some members of the West Indies T20 World Cup squad have booked their own flights and left India after another delay in their departure from India.

NATIONNEWS understands that the proposed charter flight from India never happened on Tuesday (Monday night Barbados Time) and a few frustrated members of the squad got commercial flights and are on their way home.

A source with knowledge of the situation said “it has reached breaking point … and the lads are utterly and completely frustrated. Some have decided to get out of India on their own instead of waiting on the organizers to sort ‘this thing’ out.”

The West Indies were due to travel with the South Africa team on the same charter. It is also understood that several South Africa players and support staff left India on their own. It is not sure what is the latest challenge which prevented the groups from departure.

Efforts to contact officials from both teams and various cricket boards proved futile.

This is the ninth day that the West Indies have been in India since they exited the tournament. They lost their last Super 8 match against India on Sunday, March 1.

Since then, they have been promised on at least four separate occasions that a special charter would be provided to take them home, however this has not materialized.

On Sunday, they were given written confirmation that a charter would depart Kolkata and travel via Johannesburg en route to Antigua. That plan again fell through. (PS)

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