The 2024 T20 World Cup-winning Indian cricket team's is likely to reach home by Wednesday (July 3) evening. They are currently stuck in Barbados due to Hurricane Beryl.

According to reports, Beryl, which has now strengthened into a Category 5 Atlantic hurricane, is expected to pass Barbados by Monday (July 1).

In that case, Indian players, who are staying indoors in their hotels since the T20 World Cup final on June 29, could be able to leave on Tuesday (July 2).

Speaking to news agency PTI, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley informed that the airport which is currently shut can become operational in the next “six to 12 hours”.

“We hope, and we’re working towards later today. I don’t want to speak in advance of it, but I’ve literally been in touch with the airport personnel and they’re doing their last checks now and we want to resume to normal operations as a matter of urgency,” Mottley said.

“The hurricane was 80 miles south of us, which limited, the level of damage on shore. But as you can see, we’ve had costal, infrastructure and costal assets have been badly damaged,” he added.

Meanwhile, the Indian journalists, who are also stuck in Barbados, have revealed that Rohit Sharma’s men will be taking a chartered flight to Delhi on Tuesday at 6 PM (3.30 AM IST on Wednesday) local time and are expected to reach India by Wednesday evening.

The charter flight will carry Indian players and their family members, support staff, coaches, BCCI officials, and also the journalists.

BCCI secretary Jay Shah is currently with the team in Barbados and he is looking after the arrangements for the charter flight.

Notably, some names from India's T20 World Cup 2024 squad are scheduled to travel to Zimbabwe for the five-match T20I series, beginning on July 06 in Harare. The delayed return home may have disturbed their plans as well.

(With PTI Inputs)