T20 World Cup 2024: Team India stuck in Barbados due to Hurricane Beryl

It ought to have been a day of celebration a day when the events of the past few hours would finally begin to sink in A day of introspection and sustained highfives After all the day after a World Cup triumph doesnrsquot come around too oftenInstead Sunday was a day of frustration for Indiarsquos cricketers still basking in their spectacular getoutofjail sevenrun conquest of South Africa in the final of the T20 World CupAs Bridgetown and the southeastern Caribbean island of Barbados literally battened down the hatches in anticipation of Hurricane Beryl Rohit Sharma and his men endured the uncertainty of when they would be given the allclear to fly back home to soak in the affection adulation and adoration of their millions of fans Indiarsquos cricketers arenrsquot used to uncertaintyTreacherous pitchesThey werenrsquot for four weeks and eight matches on treacherous pitches in New York and better batting surfaces in the Caribbean Against potential banana skins Ireland and United States Afghanistan and Bangladesh and more familiar foes including Pakistan Australia England and South Africa They were sure of their approach of their game plan of their strategies of their own strengths of what they were capable of doing They were sure of the fact that if they played to their full potential no one would be able to prevent them from keeping their tryst with destinyAlso ReadT20 World Cup 2024 Hardik Pandya The man who stayed under the headlinesThere have been mischievous motivated whispers in various quarters that this World Cup was set up for India to win Of course it was Thatrsquos why India played their group matches in New York on dropin pitches made in Adelaide which would have been deemed dangerous in a nonWorld Cup international one suspects Thatrsquos why they airdashed straight from the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium well aware that lack of attention to detail would ensure their match against Canada in Fort Lauderdale would be a nonstarter despite no rain for 21 hours before the start Thatrsquos why they played three Super 8 matches in five days in three different islands Thatrsquos why all their matches began at 1030 am heremdasha time at which they havenrsquot played a whiteball game for nearly a decadeandahalf The tongues will wag and the rumour mills will churn unchecked but they canrsquot hide the fact that India were the best team in the competition the first nation to go unbeaten at a T20 World Cup Fortified by the presence of the best bowler in the world the man who overturned certain defeat with the opposition needing 30 off 30 six wickets in hand to the most extraordinary sevenrun heistBumrah is worldrsquos bestNo one not even the magnificent Rohit was anywhere near as influential as Jasprit Bumrah the man with the golden arm the Player of the Tournament Sunday night through Monday morning Hurricane Beryl made landfall disrupted power lines and hurled winds in excess of 80 kmph But even that intensity couldnrsquot matched Bumrahrsquos or Indiarsquos Now just the long flight back home whenever that is remains With the World Cup in tow no lessBravo11No of years after which India won an ICC trophy