{"id":43343,"date":"2026-03-11T06:04:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=43343"},"modified":"2026-03-11T06:04:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:04:44","slug":"south-africa-team-stranded-in-india-to-fly-home-from-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=43343","title":{"rendered":"South Africa team, stranded in India, to fly home from Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>South Africa&#8217;s cricket team, stranded in India because of international airspace closure, will \u200bbegin to fly home on Wednesday, with the \u200centire contingent departing in the next 36 hours, the International Cricket Council said.<\/p>\n<p>They are one of several, including West Indies, \u200bstuck because of conflict in the Middle East long \u200bafter their Twenty20 World Cup campaigns ended, while \u2060the ICC struggled to charter flights to repatriate them.<\/p>\n<p>England \u200bflew home two days after being beaten in the \u200bsemi-finals, prompting criticism of the ICC from the South African and West Indian camps.<\/p>\n<p>The ICC, in a statement on Wednesday, said the \u200bcriticism was &#8220;incorrect&#8221; and provided an update on South \u200bAfrica&#8217;s return.<\/p>\n<p>Read: At least 5 Iran women footballers take asylum in Australia<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On current arrangements, the South Africa contingent will begin departing \u200cfor \u2060South Africa tonight, with all members expected to have departed within the next 36 hours,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ICC rejects any suggestion that these decisions have been driven by \u200banything other \u200bthan safety, feasibility \u2060, and welfare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Throughout this period, the ICC&#8217;s overriding priority has been the safety and \u200bwelfare of everyone affected,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will not \u200bmove \u2060people until we are satisfied that the travel solution in place is safe, and that commitment will not change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cricket \u2060West \u200bIndies said on Tuesday it \u200bhad booked commercial flights to take home its contingent in three groups.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s cricket team, stranded in India because of international airspace closure, will \u200bbegin to fly home on Wednesday, with the \u200centire contingent departing in the next 36 hours, the International Cricket Council said. They are one of several, including West Indies, \u200bstuck because of conflict in the Middle East long \u200bafter their Twenty20 World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}