Indian cricket team taking private charter flights during ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 to keep fatigue away

Indian cricket team is playing all of their CWC 2023 league games in 9 different venues across the country.

Indian cricket team has already covered a distance of nearly 8,000 km and still has a substantial route to cover for their remaining league-stage matches in the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup 2023. India have thus far traveled from Guwahati to Pune.

The Rohit Sharma-led team is the only one participating in the World Cup that won't be playing more than one match at a location and will be touring the entire nation while competing against many nations.

The Indian team had assembled in Guwahati for the first warm-up match and then moved to Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram for the second warm-up match. Their first ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 match was against Australia in Chennai and then they moved to Delhi for the Afghanistan encounter. India and Pakistan then clashed in Ahmedabad.

Now the Indian team is in Pune for the Bangladesh encounter on October 19 and after this will go to Dharamshala to face New Zealand on October 22.

BCCI has hired chartered flights for Indian cricket team to move across the country to avoid fatigue during the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023

To keep the travel fatigue at bay and minimize burnout due to the exhaustive schedule, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has ensured private charters and only post-lunch departures the day after the match for the Men in Blue.

“The team is flying on private charters. It’s a long World Cup and keeping the travel schedule in mind, we have ensured to have only charters. The timings of the flights also have been cautiously kept around the lunchtime after the match. There are some changes – say via a private charter – when it comes to tricky destinations like Guwahati or Dharamsala but mostly charters are direct,” a BCCI official told News18 CricketNext.

24-year-old Shubman Gill was the only exception to this routine as the batter took a commercial evening flight from Chennai, where he was recovering from dengue to Ahmedabad.