A particular Vande Bharat prepare having each Punjab Kings (PBKS) and Delhi Capitals (DC) gamers and help workers members, match officers, commentators, broadcast crew members, operations workers and different key personnel related to the known as off IPL 2025 sport in Dharamshala has reached New Delhi from Jalandhar. The DC group bus, together with different buses, have been in readiness close to the Safdarjung Railway Station to ferry gamers from each groups and numerous key personnel to their accommodations. After deboarding the prepare, everybody went into their earmarked buses and have been off to their respective accommodations in New Delhi. The likes of KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Ricky Ponting, Nehal Wadhera, Marco Jansen, Tristan Stubbs, Heman Badani, Jake Fraser McGurk, Yuzi Chahal, Priyansh Arya, Axar Patel, Shashank Singh, Brad Haddin, Patrick Farhat, together with total DC and PBKS groups, commentators Alan Wilkins and Graeme Swann, and PBKS co-owner Preity Zinta amongst others have been seen getting into their respective buses after arriving on the railway station.
#WATCH | Delhi: Players of Delhi Capitals and Punjab Kings attain Delhi’s Safdarjung Railway Station after their IPL match in Dharamshala was known as off yesterday.
They reached Jalandhar from Dharamshala by street, after which they boarded the prepare to Delhi. pic.twitter.com/dZSuUgJhCm
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“There were many team members and staff personnel. Plus, there were many people from BCCI, a camera crew, technical and operations people. The whole crew was very big, and the way they managed it was very good. I would like to thank again BCCI plus Indian Railways,” mentioned Kuldeep Yadav, DC’s left-arm wrist-spinner, in a video posted on IPL’s ‘X’ account.
The IPL 2025 match between PBKS and DC was known as off after simply 10.1 overs of play within the first innings on the HPCA Stadium in Dharamshala, attributable to air and drone strikes from Pakistan inflicting blackouts in Jammu, Pathankot and Udhampur, all of which have been close to the hill station.
As quickly as the sport was known as off and spectators have been made to vacate the stadium in a peaceful method, gamers and help workers members of each groups, in addition to different personnel working across the sport in Dharamshala, headed again to their respective accommodations safely underneath tight safety.
With Dharamshala being a no-fly zone, identical to different North Indian cities, the principle concern amongst high folks within the BCCI was how to make sure gamers and different stakeholders get to maneuver out safely from Dharamshala. A late-night dialogue between high BCCI officers and Indian Railways ensured that they might go from Dharamshala to Jalandhar in a convoy of buses and board their prepare to New Delhi.
“The plan was there earlier to take the train to New Delhi from Pathankot, but from a security and players’ safety point of view, Jalandhar looked much safer at the end. With the help of police from both Himachal Pradesh and Punjab, along with other security officials, everything was readied meticulously to accommodate everyone in the journey from Dharamshala to Jalandhar and then to New Delhi,” mentioned sources conscious of developments to IANS.
The Indian Premier League additionally put out a submit on X, previously Twitter, thanking the Railways Ministry for arranging the prepare.
“Thank you, @RailMinIndia, for arranging a special Vande Bharat train on such short notice to ferry the players, support staff, commentators, production crew members, and operations staff to New Delhi. We deeply appreciate your swift response,” mentioned the submit, which was accompanied by a video exhibiting the journey from Jalandhar to New Delhi.
To guarantee absolute secrecy of the practically 12-hour-long journey, everybody who boarded buses from their respective accommodations in Dharamshala weren’t precisely instructed earlier than hand about the place they might board the prepare for going to New Delhi.
Even if somebody knew of particulars, they have been instructed to keep up confidentiality underneath very strict safety causes and have been kept away from posting something about it on any platform, together with on social media platforms, until they reached New Delhi.
Previously, the IPL 2025 was suspended for per week by the BCCI on Friday afternoon, owing to cross-border rigidity between India and Pakistan. The match had accomplished 58 video games, with 12 matches left to be performed within the league stage and adopted by the playoffs. It stays to be seen how the state of affairs unfolds within the subsequent few days, in order that the match will get a window for resumption.
–IANS
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