Team India's complete schedule on 4 July: Meet PM Modi, open bus parade in Mumbai and more

Team India will be in for a long day on Thursday, 4 July when they arrive in India via a charter flight from Barbados, with the Rohit Sharma-led side set to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi followed by an open-top bus parade in Mumbai.

The Men in Blue were supposed to depart Barbados for New York on Monday morning before taking a connecting flight from Dubai for India a couple of days after winning the T20 World Cup for a second time.

However, the Indian cricketers were stuck in the island for three days due to Hurricane Beryl that has swept through the Caribbean, and were only able to fly out of Barbados in the early hours of Wednesday via a charter flight named AIC24WC — Air India Champions 24 World Cup.

The Indian cricketers and their families along with support staff, select BCCI officials and Indian mediapersons will now arrive in New Delhi on Thursday at 6 am from where Rohit Sharma and his men will proceed to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The T20 world champions are then scheduled to fly to Mumbai on the same day, arriving in the financial capital in the evening from the national capital.

Rohit and Co will then have a kilometre-long open-top bus parade celebration in Marine Drive in the southern part of the city followed by a ceremony at the Wankhede Stadium, similar to the welcome MS Dhoni and his team received after their triumph in the inaugural T20 World Cup in 2007.

🇮🇳, we want to enjoy this special moment with all of you.

So let’s celebrate this win with a victory parade at Marine Drive & Wankhede on July 4th from 5:00pm onwards.

It’s coming home ❤️🏆

— Rohit Sharma (@ImRo45) July 3, 2024

It is at the iconic venue in Mumbai where BCCI secretary Jay Shah, who was present in Barbados for the final against South Africa on Saturday, will distribute the RS 125 crore cash prize to the Indian team for winning their first ICC trophy in over a decade.

“The team has left from Barbados on a special Air India flight hired by the BCCI. The Indian journalists who were stuck there (Barbados) are also coming on the same flight along with BCCI president (Roger Binny) and secretary (Jay Shah), who are looking after all the arrangements,” BCCI vice-president Rajeev Shukla told PTI.

“The flight will land at Delhi airport tomorrow 6 am. The team will meet PM Narendra Modi at 11 am at his residence. After this, the team will fly to Mumbai, where a ceremony has been organised.

“There will be a road show from Nariman Point in an open bus and later we will honour and felicitate the players with the prize money of Rs 125 crore as announced,” he added.

Here’s a tentative program of the Indian team on Thursday, 4 July:

06.00hrs: Arrival at Delhi Airport.

06.45hrs: Arrival at ITC Maurya, Delhi.

09.00hrs: Leave ITC Maurya for PM office.

10.00hrs to 12.00hrs: Function at PM office.

12.00hrs: Leave for ITC Maurya.

12.30hrs: Leave ITC Maurya for Airport

14.00hrs: Departure for Mumbai.

16.00hrs: Arrival at Mumbai Airport.

17.00hrs: Arrival at Wankhede Stadium.

17.00 to 19.00hrs: Open Bus Parade.

19.00hrs to 19.30hrs: Small function at Wankhede Stadium.

19.30hrs: Leave for Hotel Taj, Apollo Bunder.