A particular Vande Bharat practice having each Punjab Kings (PBKS) and Delhi Capitals (DC) gamers and help employees members, match officers, commentators, broadcast crew members, operations employees and different key personnel related to the referred to as off IPL 2025 recreation in Dharamshala has reached New Delhi from Jalandhar. The DC staff 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 practice, 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 whole DC and PBKS groups, commentators Alan Wilkins and Graeme Swann, and PBKS co-owner Preity Zinta amongst others have been seen coming into their respective buses after arriving on the railway station.
#WATCH | Delhi: Gamers of Delhi Capitals and Punjab Kings attain Delhi’s Safdarjung Railway Station after their IPL match in Dharamshala was referred to as off yesterday.
They reached Jalandhar from Dharamshala by street, after which they boarded the practice to Delhi. pic.twitter.com/dZSuUgJhCm
— ANI (@ANI) May 9, 2025
“There have been many staff members and employees personnel. Plus, there have been many individuals from BCCI, a digital camera crew, technical and operations folks. The entire crew was very massive, and the way in which they managed it was superb. I wish to thank once more BCCI plus Indian Railways,” stated 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 referred to as off after simply 10.1 overs of play within the first innings on the HPCA Stadium in Dharamshala, as a result of 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 referred to as off and spectators have been made to vacate the stadium in a peaceful method, gamers and help employees members of each groups, in addition to different personnel working across the recreation in Dharamshala, headed again to their respective accommodations safely beneath tight safety.
With Dharamshala being a no-fly zone, identical to different North Indian cities, the primary concern amongst prime 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 prime BCCI officers and Indian Railways ensured that they might go from Dharamshala to Jalandhar in a convoy of buses and board their practice to New Delhi.
“The plan was there earlier to take the practice to New Delhi from Pathankot, however from a safety and gamers’ security standpoint, Jalandhar regarded a lot safer on the finish. With the assistance of police from each Himachal Pradesh and Punjab, together with different safety officers, all the things was readied meticulously to accommodate everybody within the journey from Dharamshala to Jalandhar after which to New Delhi,” stated sources conscious of developments to IANS.
The Indian Premier League additionally put out a publish on X, previously Twitter, thanking the Railways Ministry for arranging the practice.
“Thanks, @RailMinIndia, for arranging a particular Vande Bharat practice on such brief discover to ferry the gamers, help employees, commentators, manufacturing crew members, and operations employees to New Delhi. We deeply admire your swift response,” stated the publish, which was accompanied by a video displaying the journey from Jalandhar to New Delhi.
To make sure absolute secrecy of the almost 12-hour-long journey, everybody who boarded buses from their respective accommodations in Dharamshala weren’t precisely advised earlier than hand about the place they might board the practice for going to New Delhi.
Even when somebody knew of particulars, they have been advised to keep up confidentiality beneath 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.
Beforehand, the IPL 2025 was suspended for per week by the BCCI on Friday afternoon, owing to cross-border pressure between India and Pakistan. The event 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 scenario unfolds within the subsequent few days, in order that the event will get a window for resumption.
–IANS
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