Team India Victory Parade Highlights: Rohit Sharma's T20 World Cup winners felicitated, take lap of honour at Wankhede

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: Well, that's it folks! The felicitation ceremony comes to a wrap! Our coverage also comes to an end! A historic night of celebration for Team India, and redemption for the likes of Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Hardik Pandya!

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: The players are at a balcony and waving at the players. They are also soaking in the scenes and clicking photos of the fans! WHAT A NIGHT! THEY WILL NEVER FORGET THIS! Then, they walk down to the field again! Meanwhile, they also hold the trophy and pass it on!

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: The BCCI officials have aso handed the Indian players a cheque of ₹125 crores. That's a huge prize money for the players and management staff! HUGE SCENES AS THEY POSE FOR A GROUP PHOTO!

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: The Indian team are now invited for the felicitation and then they go to take a round of the field and thank fans, with the trophy! Suryakumar also takes selfies

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: Meanwhile, Bumrah said, "Bumrah: The broadcaster and Mumbai Indians bow down to Jasprit Bumrah, I will consider myself a youngster as well. The experienced players and other staff, the variety and depth we have to pull the team out of trouble is amazing. Rohit and Virat have said it before. This is a wonderful team."

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: The ceremony has begun and Rohit says, "Mumbai never disappoints. The huge turnout of fans to welcome us shows they were as desperate for this T20 World Cup title as we were."

Meanwhile, Kohli got emotional and said, "I couldn't connect with the emotions of the seniors, who cried that night (after the 2011 World Cup triumph), but now I do." He also went on to label Bumrah as a national treasure and match-winner!

Meanwhile, Rahul Dravid said, "I am going to miss this love. What I saw on streets tonight, I won't forget it."

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: The Wankhede is packed and looks all set for the felicitation ceremony to begin! The Indian team have reached and it will begin anytime soon! Stay tuned folks! Long night ahead for all of us! BUT CRAZY SCENES THOUGH! A NIGHT TO REMEMBER!

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: Pandya raises the trophy at the Wankhede as rest of the players begin to take their seats. Hardik's gesture makes the crowd go berserk as they cheer him on! WHAT A MOMENT FOR THE ALL-ROUNDER, A PROPER COMEBACK!

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and rest of the Indian players dance to the tunes of a dhol at the Wankhede Stadium, they have finally reached folks! Here are the photos-

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: Rahul Dravid was also seen applauding the fans, who were present for the victory parade. Many Indians players have covered themselves with the national flag are are enjoying the scenes! There are plenty of security personnel present with the bus for safety reasons!

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: The bus is going ahead slowly as Kohli and Axar can be seen joking together, while the rest of the Indian team celebrate. The fans are also very enthusiastic and are walking along with the bus, like one single army! EPIC SCENES!

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: The fans are following the bus and it could soon get pretty crowded outside the Wankhede Stadium. Both Rohit and Kohli also lift the World Cup together on the bus, as fans applaud them! Euphoric mood in the Indian camp as they soak in the celebrations from fans! THEY WILL REMEMBER THIS FOREVER!

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: Kohli, Rohit, Suryakumar, Kuldeep and other members of the team pose for a photo in the bus. Meanwhile, Kohli is covered with the Indian flag! INSPIRATIONAL SCENES! The players also look stunned by the turnout! There are fans everywhere! Literally everywhere!

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: The road is jam-packed! India has probably not seen something like this for years now! All it took was for Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli to break the jinx and clinch the T20 World Cup title! EPIC SCENES! WHAT A TURNOUT!

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: The first true visuals of Team India. Virat Kohli soaking the atmosphere. His phone is out. Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant gesture animatedly towards the crowd as the bus slowly makes its way through Marine Drive. Usually, the drive from Nariman Point to the Wankhede Stadium is 5 minutes long. But for the bus to pass through this sea of blue is going to take some doing. But hey! It's worth it. It's not everyday that we become World Champions

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: At last, they are here. The Indian team, perched on the team bus, has arrived at the Queen's necklace, Marine Drive. First visuals are out as Jasprit Bumrah waves to the fans. Hardik Pandya, looking dapper in shades, is swag personified. The moment is finally here. Huge cheers from the Mumbai faithful as they welcome their heroes. The sun has set, but rest assured, the buzz and enthusiasm won't anytime soon.

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: The parade has begun and it is jam-packed as the bus moves in slow motion through marine drive! The players are on the open-top bus as fans have taken out their phones to capture some picture-perfect memories!

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: Hardik Pandya keeps fans at their toes with a teaser post on X. In the post, he can be seen posing with the T20 World Cup trophy and he captioned it as, "See you soon, Wankhede".

It will be the perfect homecoming for the all-rounder, who was booed by fans in Mumbai in IPL 2024.

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: Earlier today, Team India reached Delhi first and met PM Modi at his residence. after that they left for Mumbai and will now be coming for the victory parade soon! After their arrival in the national capital, Team India reached the ITC Maurya Hotel, where they also cut a special cake featuring the T20 World Cup trophy to celebrate the historic win.

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: It is raining heavily at Wankhede as organisers are trying to cover the podium, crazy scenes folks! The parade hasn't started yet and many feel it could begin at 8:30 PM IST!

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: Ayushmann Khurana dedicated a shayari to Team India for their T20 World cup glory. He stated in a video, "Semi-finals me Kohli ke muh se nikla tha Ben-Strokes, tab toh alochakon ne laga diye they saare chokes. Aur ye final me dikha diya legend ne apna Virat roop, samjho pyaare yehi hai jeevan chaaon aur dhoop. Pandya ko bhi pichle do mahine se bahut kuch kaha sunaya, aakhiri over me fir usi ne toh jalwa dikhaya. Aur moochein ho toh Hardik jaisi ho varna na ho aur bowling figures ho toh Bumrah jaisi ho warna na ho."

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: Due to heavy rain and traffic, the Mumbai Police have issued a statement on X, saying, "Due to the heavy rush of fans around Wankhede Stadium, people are requested to avoid commuting towards Marine Drive."

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: The team bus has started from the Mumbai airport and nobody knows when they will reach Wankhede! The crowd is huge and there is no space to move for anyone! It will be in slow motion folks!

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: It is crazy scenes at Marine Drive as fans are going bonkers as they wait for Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli! It is going to cross all levels when the Indian team arrive here and people are going to go crazy! Finally a ICC title, since 2013! FINALLY! CELEBRATIONS FOR THE ENTIRE NIGHT!

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: The visuals from the live broadcast show that fans are not turning back home, even though the parade has been delayed and the rain doesn't matter to them, neither does the traffic. It is still not known how the bus will make its way in this traffic! The team has also left the airport, on their way to Nariman

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: The victory parade has been delayed due to heavy rain and traffic in Mumbai. Players haven't even got on the bus yet. Stay tuned folks! We need to be patient, this will take time! Fans are everywhere in Mumbai as they gear up to get a sigh of Team India!

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: Everyone will miss Rahul Dravid, who ended his India head coach tenure with the T20 World Cup. He didn't re-apply neither did he extend his contract.

In his final speech to the team, he said, "I am really short of words, but all I just want to say is thank you to everyone for making me a part of what is an incredible memory. I think all of you will remember these moments. I think, like we always say, it is not about the runs, it is not about the wickets, you will never remember your career. But you will remember moments like this. So let us really enjoy it. I could not be more prouder of you guys. To come back the way you did, the way you fought, the way we worked as a team, the resilience. There have been some disappointments over the years where we have come close, we have never been able to cross the line. But what this bunch of boys have done, what all of you have done, what everyone in the support staff has done, the hard work that we have put in, the sacrifices that we have made. You know, I think... the whole country is proud of each and every one of you and what you have achieved."

"Just like to say, Ro, thank you very much for making that call to me in November and asking me to continue. I think it has been such a privilege and a pleasure to work with each and every one of you and every one of you, but also to Ro, thanks for the time. I know as a captain and a coach, there are a lot of times we have to chat, we have to discuss, we have to agree. We have to disagree at times, but thank you so very much.

"Each and every one of us comes through a system. Each and every one of us comes through an organization that gives us the opportunities to grow and play. So thank you very much and well done for us," he added.

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: It has started to rain and there is massive traffic in Marine Drive right now. The victory parade is facing a bigger delay now folks! STAY TUNED! BUT IT IS FOR OUR NATIONAL HEROES! We last won a ICC trophy in 2013, and they ended the barren run with a dominant T20 World Cup 2024 campaign!

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: It will be an open-top bus parade and after players from Mumbai will meet Maharashtra CM. Shiv Sena leader Pratap Sarnaik told ANI, "Today's programme in Mumbai has been organised by BCCI. Team India players from Mumbai including Captain Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Shivam Dubey and Yashasvi Jaiswal will come to the Maharashtra Assembly tomorrow to meet CM Eknath Shinde. Being a member of MCA, I invited the players and they have accepted my invitation."

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: There is extra security at Churchgate and other local railway stations in Mumbai due to tha victory parade. Taking to X, Western Railways wrote that the victory parade would coincide thousands of commuters working in South Mumbai, who would be returning to North Mumbai. It has been getting packed in Mumbai since afternoon as fans eagerly wait for Rohit Sharma and Co, who have already reached the city after their visit with PM Modi.

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: Before the T20 World Cup, Hardik was booed by fans, due to his shock transfer to MI, where he replaced Rohit Sharma as captain. But fast forward to today, he is a national hero as fans in Wankhede chanted his name, having booed him earlier during IPL 2024!

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have landed in Mumbai and are welcomed by fans and media, with rest of their Indian teammates!

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: The Marine Drive has become a sea of blue as fans have flocked there for the T20 World Cup title parade. Fans are eagerly waiting for Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and rest of their teammates.

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: According to reports, the victory lap is expected to start around 8:15-8:30 PM IST! LONG NIGHT AHEAD FOLKS!

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: The visuals from Wankhede Stadium show that it is packed outside and there is literally no space for anyone to walk!

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: The streets of Mumbai is packed, from Nariman Point to Wankhede, it is filled with people who are waiting for Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, and rest of the T20 World Cup title-winning team.

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: The T20 World Cup victory parade is scheduled for 5:00 PM, from Nariman Point. Stay tuned folks as the spotlight will be on the likes of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma.

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: PM Modi took to X and wrote, "An excellent meeting with our Champions! Hosted the World Cup winning team at 7, LKM and had a memorable conversation on their experiences through the tournament."

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli met Prime Minister Narendra Modi after leading India to T20 World Cup glory. Rahul Dravid was also there with rest of the Indian team as they had a short interaction.

Team India Victory Parade Live Updates: A fan has been waiting for Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli to arrive and lead the Indian team in their T20 World Cup victory parade. Here is what he had to say-

Team India Arrival Live Updates: Virat Kohli has posted a photo of the team and PM Modi posing with the T20 World Cup trophy. “What a great honour meeting our honourable prime minister shri narendra modi ji today @narendramodi Thank you sir for inviting us to the prime ministers residence (sic.),” he said in his caption.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: Still about half an hour left for the gates of the stadium to be opened and hours and hours to go before the Indian team arrives at the stadium and yet, there are crowds who have gathered right outside the stadium gates already. “Mumbaicha raja, Rohit Sharma!” chants everywhere.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: We are just posting all the advisories that the Mumbai Police has put out today. The police have advised that people use public transport as much as possible due to the possibility of traffic congestion.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: It is free entry at the Wankhede Stadium for the function that will happen after the Indian team's victory parade along the Marine Drive ends at the ground. The Mumbai police has said that the gates of the Wankhede Stadium will be open by 3pm. Spectators have been asked to take nothing with them in hand if they are entering the stadium though apart from flags. The road from NCPA to Wankhede Stadium will be completely closed to public traffic from 3pm to 9pm.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: Rohit was not with the rest of the Indian squad in the two buses at the airport. He arrived later in a separate car with BCCI president Roger Binny and secretary Jay Shah.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: We can see the open-top bus arriving at Nariman Point. Visuals show the bus driving past the Trident hotel on the Marine Drive. The hotel is a short walk away from Nariman Point. Meanwhile, the Indian players are at the Delhi airport.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: And finally we have images of how the team interacted with Prime Minister Modi. We can see mics being passed around which means we should soon have another video of this interaction itself.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: Right the players and coaching staff with their families are getting out of the buses now as their make their way into the Delhi airport. They are getting their luggage out as well. The team will be setting up camp at the Taj in Mumbai before going to Nariman Point.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: The players and coaching staff have picked their families from ITC Maurya and are now on their way back to the Delhi airport. It is raining on and off in the city and once again, their route to the airport has been cordoned off. The team will be going in through the VIP entrance of the Delhi airport which has been completely cordoned off.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: Right the team has filled up the two buses again. We can see BCCI officials like Jay Shah, Ashish Shelar and Roger Binny travelling with the buses separately in cars. The meeting with the Prime Minister is done, the team now goes back to the ITC Maurya from where they will leave for the airport shortly to catch a flight to Mumbai.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: The BCCI has posted a video containing valuable inside footage of the team's arrival at the airport.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: India now have two titles each in the ODI and T20I World Cups. The first was in 1983 when Kapil Dev's team, considered rank outsiders before the tournament, stunned the world-beating West Indies in the final to win their first-ever World Cup title. The second ODI World Cup title came nearly three decades later in 2011 when MS Dhoni led India to victory against Sri Lanka in the final at the Wankhede Stadium. Before that came the victory in the 2007 T20 World Cup in what was Dhoni's first ever assignment as India captain in any format. 17 years later, Rohit Sharma's men have claimed the country's second T20 World Cup victory.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: He had to endure the sadness of seeing his beloved South Africa lose in the final but Proteas legend AB de Villiers was all praise for the Indian players, particularly Hardik Pandya. "What stands out for me are the big moments. A guy like Hardik Pandya who's been through a roller-coaster himself with Mumbai Indians – moving from Gujarat to Mumbai – and all the criticism he coped with, getting the ball from the captain in the final of the T20 World Cup. That was his moment to go like, 'You know what… all Indian fans out there, this is what I am about as a cricket player'," De Villiers said on his YouTube channel.

"He made everyone proud out there. Even though I did not want him to succeed like that, I look back and have a lot of respect for that. He is a big man for a big moment and that's exactly the way he played. To all you Mumbai Indians fans out there who doubted him, I'm pretty sure he has secured a spot in your hearts for the future."

Team India Arrival Live Updates: There are two highlights to this day for the players. One is happening right now as they meet the Prime Minister, the next will be the open top bus parade from Nariman Point, along Marine Drive to the Wankhede Stadium over two hours. This is the open-top bus that will be used for the parade.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: There is one more important difference between the jerseys that the team wore at the 2024 T20 World Cup and the one they are wearing today. There are two stars above the BCCI logo, as opposed to the one that has been there since 2007. It has taken 17 years for that star count to double. Regardless of what changes happen to the jersey from here on, those two stars will stay constant and can only be added on.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: The players and coaching staff are meeting the Prime Minister and the session started at 11am. They will have breakfast before making their way back to the Maurya.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: We had stated earlier that what the players and coaching staff are wearing today is the jersey they wore during the 2024 T20 World Cup with the words “CHAMPIONS” printed underneath the country's name. Sanju Samson has now given us a proper look of the shirt in an Instagram story.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: Right, here are the images of the team bus entering the PM's residence. Remember, the meet begins at 11am, the team will have breakfast with the Prime Minister and then head back for the hotel, from where they go back to the airport and catch a flight for Mumbai.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: Right there are visuals of the team bus entering the premises of the Prime Minister's residence. The meeting is likely to start at 11am, the players will be having breakfast with PM Modi.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: Here we go then, the convoy has moved. It takes about 15 odd minutes to go from the ITC Maurya to the PM's residence. Considering the fact that the roads have been cordoned off and there is going to be no traffic for this bus to navigate through, the team should cover this distance in about 10 minutes.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: Right, the police escort has fired up those sirens, the players and coaching staff are in the bus. The families of the players and staff were with the team on the way from the airport but that is not the case this time, which is why they are using only one of the two buses.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: We mentioned earlier that the players are wearing the jerseys that the team wore during the 2024 T20 World Cup. Well it is the jersey but with a difference, they have the word "CHAMPIONS" printed beneath the name of the team in the front of the shirt.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: The chefs ask the other players who walked by to look at the cake but it was Rahul Dravid who finally cut it. He gave the chefs a thumbs up as well. We can also see Axar Patel taking a selfie with a member of the hotel staff before getting inside the bus.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: Rohit Sharma has cut the cake, but he didn't eat it. The two buses are beginning to move out of the hotel and it is the Prime Minister's residence where the meeting will take place, as opposed to his office but we will have confirmation of that shortly. The players are wearing the jerseys they wore during the tournament.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: 10am to 12 noon is the window for the Indian team to meet the Prime Minister. They are expected to come down from their rooms any time now. The crowds near the hotel have only swollen since the time that the players arrived.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: We earlier looked at Indian captain Rohit Sharma's number. Now let's take a look at a career that is probably the greatest ever seen in T20 internationals. Virat Kohli played his first T20 World Cup in 2012. He was the highest run-scorer in the 2014 T20 World Cup, where India finished runners-up to Sri Lanka, the second-highest run scorer in the 2016 T20 World Cup where India lost to eventual champions West Indies in the semi-finals, the highest runscorer in the 2022 T20 World Cup where India lost to England in the semi-finals. He was the highest run scorer of all time in T20Is a number of times in his career, with the record being almost a weekly battle between him and Rohit at one point. Having made his debut in 2010 against Zimbabwe, Kohli has scored 4188 runs in 125 matches at a stunning average of 48.69 and strike rate of 137.04. He has 38 half-centuries to his name and one century.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: India weren't really challenged too much throughout this T20 World Cup. Australia were always facing an uphill struggle against them in the Super 8, although they did well in the steep chase for a while. But the only times in this tournament when it really looked like India could lose a match was going towards the last five overs of the final and in the first half of Pakistan's chase during the clash between the arch-rivals in the group stage.

India were all out for just 119 runs with Pakistan pacers Naseem Shah, Mohammad Amir, Haris Rauf and Shaheen Afridi making the most of the pace-friendly conditions in New York. Pakistan looked like they were cruising in the first 10 overs of their chase and then Jasprit Bumrah led the way as India starved them for runs. Mohammad Rizwan trying a big shot against the Indian pace ace and perishing in the 15th over was the decisive turning point and India ended up winning by six runs.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: He is a man who knows a thing or two about winning World Cups, the BCCI president. Roger Binny, famously part of Kapil Dev's team India that won the 1983 World Cup, has arrived at the ITC Maurya. He will be joining Team India as they celebrate their ICC T20 World Cup triumph.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: The team is expected to cut a cake prepared by the hotel before they leave for the PMO. The cake is blue at the bottom, orange in the middle and white at the top, with the bottom two showing the colours of the Indian jersey. At the top of it all is a replica of the T20 World Cup trophy.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: Both India and South Africa had gone into the final in Barbados without losing a match. It meant that one of the two teams was going to go unbeaten throughout the tournament, something that had never happened before in the T20 World Cup. In fact the last time it happened at any ICC tournament was in 2013 when MS Dhoni's India did it. The last time it happened at any World Cup was when Australia won the ODI title in 2007 at the same venue as that of the 2024 T20 World Cup.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: Fresh visuals from the ITC Maurya shows that it wasn't just Suryakumar Yadav who did the bhangra after exiting the team bus. Yashasvi Jaiswal briefly joined him while captain Rohit Sharma himself shook a leg or two.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: Team India Arrival Live Updates: Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Wednesday sought a report from Air India after a scheduled flight it was to operate was allegedly deployed for flying out India’s victorious T20 World Cup team from Barbados. DGCA’s step came following reports that the airline pulled out its Boeing 777 originally scheduled to operate a regular flight from Newark to Delhi for the trip out of Barbados, causing difficulties for passengers. Read more

Team India Arrival Live Updates: Fresh visuals from the ITC Maurya shows Suryakumar Yadav showing that he doesn't have too many problems as far as energy is concerned despite the long flight from Barbados and the long day he has ahead of him. He got out of the team bus and danced his heart out with the part of the welcome party that was doing bhangra and playing the dhol.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: Rohit Sharma's T20I debut came in India's 2007 T20 World Cup group match against England in Durban. He ended up not batting at all in that match but the youngster became an important part of MS Dhoni's title-winning team over the course of the tournament. He has held the title of highest-ever T20I run scorer a number of times throughout his career, often being overtaken, and snatching it from, his longtime teammate Virat Kohli. Rohit finishes as the highest run scorer with 4231 runs at a strike rate of 140.89 and average of 32.05. He finishes with 32 half-centuries and a record five centuries, the joint most by any batter in men's T20Is alongwith Glenn Maxwell.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: The two seniormost players in this team announced their retirement from the format after the final. Rohit and Kohli have been the two most dominant batters in T20 internationals for a number of years. There was even a period not too long ago when they kept exchanging the no.1 spot in the all-time highest T20I run scorers' list. Rohit had been with the Indian team when they won the inaugural T20 World Cup in 2007 and has played every edition of the tournament since. Kohli retires as the all-time highest run scorer in the history of T20 internationals.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: The BCCI has just posted a video of visuals from inside the flight as the team made its way from Barbados to Delhi. "Amazing feeling man," Mohammed Siraj can be heard saying in the video. "We have worked a lot for this. I am so blessed to have this trophy in my hands today and to be part of this team that has won it."

Team India Arrival Live Updates: The BCCI's first post today to announce the team's arrival was a cute little video showing the team looking at the trophy affectionately and cradling it in their arms. The ITC Maurya is a hub of activity and it is drizzling slightly in Delhi as well.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: They have about two hours before they have to be ready and out of their rooms for the meeting with the Prime Minister. Once that is over at 12 noon, they head back to the ITC Maurya, a quick change and then a run back to the airport. They are expected to arrive in Mumbai by 4pm. This is all after a 15-hour flight from Barbados.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: So the Indian team is set to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the time period for that will be from 10am to 12 noon. However, the meeting will take place at the PM's office, as opposed to the PM's residence which is where it was supposed to happen earlier.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: We have some more visuals of the team buses travelling from the airport to the ITC Maurya. It was an extensive security cordon that accompanied the buses to the hotel. The window for the players to meet PM Modi is between 10am and 12 noon.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: Well Rohit Sharma could be seen with his family but the trophy was with local boy Rishabh Pant. We could then seen head coach Rahul Dravid and batting coach Vikram Rathour followed by Yashasvi Jaiswal and Suryakumar Yadav. Jaiswal has to fly out to Harare in a few days, remember, to join the rest of the Indian team captained by Shubman Gill for their five-match T20I series in Zimbabwe.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: There is a grand reception that has been arranged at the ITC Maurya as we see the two buses entering the hotel gates. Fans everywhere you see despite the fact that we are still fairly early on a Thursday morning.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: One side of the road has been cordoned off and so there are no chances of the team being stuck in the traffic jams that are ubiquitous in that route from the Delhi airport to central Delhi. The buses are racing past those jams, where people can be seen getting out of their vehicles and filming. Well, who said the victory parade is starting at Nariman point, it's already started.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: Well we didn't quite see Rohit Sharma with the trophy walking out of the terminal and into the bus but they are there. The two buses have moved. It is a huge security convoy that is travelling with the team.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: From the airport the team travel to the ITC Maurya about 12km away in Chanakyapuri. The hotel has revealed a cake in the colours of the Indian jersey that they will be cutting there. From there, they travel to meet PM Narendra Modi with whom they will have breakfast at the Prime Minister's residence.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: Well we just saw Suryakumar Yadav and then Hardik Pandya walk in. Kohli can be seen in the front seat. We then see Jasprit Bumrah as well. Yet to see Rohit Sharma and the T20 World Cup trophy.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: Right, the fans at T3 get a glimpse of their heroes at last. Virat Kohli was the first man out, he goes and takes his place inside the bus before the rest of the players. Soon we see Mohammed Siraj followed by Arshdeep Singh, bowling coach Paras Mhambrey and a few more members of the Indian staff.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: This T20 World Cup marks the first time that the player of the tournament won that award without scoring a single run. T20s are supposed to be a batter's game and yet, nobody would be able to argue against Bumrah winning this award. He has been sensational in all formats since returning to full-time cricket in August 2023 and in this World Cup, well he was pretty much a cheat code for Rohit Sharma. Bumrah didn't concede a single six all tournament long, maintained a scarcely believable economy rate of 4.17 in the eight matches that he played and took 15 wickets.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: The BCCI has just posted a video with the caption "It's home". Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah, Shivam Dube, Yuzvendra Chahal and Ravindra Jadeja can be seen staring down at the camera lens and smiling. No prizes for guessing what the camera lens is supposed to be and what they are smiling at. They then pick up the T20 World Cup trophy from beside the camera and kiss it

Team India Arrival Live Updates: Virat Kohli, who had struggled to get any runs throughout the tournament, won the player of the match after bailing India out of a horrible start by scoring 76 in 59 balls. He said in the presentation ceremony that this was his last T20I match, thus ending what is probably the greatest T20I career in the nearly two-decade history of this format. Indian captain Rohit Sharma then told reporters in the post-match press conference that he has played his last T20I as well. Ravindra Jadeja announced his retirement from the format the next day.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: To say it was an emotional victory for India on June 29 in Barbados is an understatement. Apart from the fact that most of these players were part of the teams that experienced disappointments in a number of major ICC tournaments in the recent past, it was a game in which India seemed down and out going into the last five overs, with Heinrich Klaasen smashing 24 runs in the 15th over off Axar Patel and brought it down to South Africa needing just 30 runs to win off the last 30 balls. And then, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh and Hardik Pandya led the way as India put up the most extraordinary of chokehold on the flow of runs for South Africa. It came down to the Proteas needing 16 to win off the last over. Pandya started it with a wide full toss, David Miller went big downtown but Suryakumar Yadav swooped in, caught the ball, threw it back up in the air when his momentum took him over the boundary pads, came back in and completed what has now become an iconic catch. Pandya conceded just eight more runs in that over. Cue tears and pandemonium.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: News has filtered through that the team has arrived and suddenly, both the crowd and security outside Terminal 3 has swelled in Delhi. The flight itself can still be seen taxiing around after landing and so any cheers that you may be hearing there for the next 10 minutes at least are false alarms.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: Team India Arrival Live Updates: It should come as no surprise that there will be tight security all along the stretch between the NCPA and the Wankhede Stadium which is just over 2km. That may not mean that fans can't get a glimpse of their favourite players but expect the marine drive to be closed off for that period. Mumbai folks, if you are travelling for this, best would be to use public transport or cabs or else all the best find parking spots. Unless of course you are among the very few in the world that have an apartment in that area. Good for you if that is the case.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: It's official, the eagle has landed. The chartered flight containing the Indian team has landed at the Delhi airport. There may yet be time for the players and staff to walk out of the terminal though. Remember that the BCCI has also brought back the Indian journalists who were there in Barbados in the same flight

Team India Arrival Live Updates: The Indian team is expected to arrive in Mumbai at 4pm. The open top bus parade is expected to start approximately at 5:00pm from the National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA), which is situated at Nariman Point and they will go all the way across the Marine Drive over the next two hours with the parade ending at the Wankhede Stadium. Those who know Mumbai would tell you that it would take just over half an hour to walk that distance but this is an open top bus parade and there are expected to be crores of fans on the road.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: It is the wee hours of a Thursday morning but that doesn't matter. Scores of fans are waiting at Delhi's Terminal 3, from where the Indian team is expected to walk out with the trophy. They will be spending the first half of the day at the national capital as they are meeting Prime Minister Modi before heading over to Mumbai.

Team India arrival live updates: Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and the other T20 World Cup-winning Indian cricketers will land in New Delhi in a few minutes. Before that, let's take a look at their schedule for today…

• Scheduled arrival at Delhi airport around 6:20 am
• Drive to meet PM Narendra Modi
• Breakfast and felicitation ceremony with PM Modi
• Fly to Mumbai via a chartered flight
• A victory parade from from 5 pm onwards in Mumbai
• The parade is likely to start at Marine Drive and end at the Wankhede Stadium
• Felicitation ceremony at Wankhede

Team India returns home LIVE updates: Virat Kohli hit a match-winning 76 to help India defeat South Africa in the final of the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 on Saturday. After lifting the famous trophy, Rohit Sharma's Team India was stranded for three days in Barbados due to Hurricane Beryl. The BCCI arranged an Air India special charter flight (AIC24WC) for the Indian squad, its support staff, the players' families and members of the travelling media contingent. The special flight with call sign AIC24WC is set to touch dow in New Delhi.