Punjab Kings, Delhi Capitals Gamers Attain Delhi By Particular Vande Bharat Practice – Watch | Cricket Information

A particular Vande Bharat prepare having each Punjab Kings (PBKS) and Delhi Capitals (DC) gamers and assist employees members, match officers, commentators, broadcast crew members, operations employees and different key personnel related to the referred to as off IPL 2025 sport in Dharamshala has reached New Delhi from Jalandhar. The DC workforce bus, together with different buses, have been in readiness close to the Safdarjung Railway Station to ferry gamers from each groups and varied key personnel to their motels. After deboarding the prepare, everybody went into their earmarked buses and have been off to their respective motels 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 complete DC and PBKS groups, commentators Alan Wilkins and Graeme Swann, and PBKS co-owner Preity Zinta amongst others have been seen getting 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 highway, after which they boarded the prepare to Delhi. pic.twitter.com/dZSuUgJhCm

— ANI (@ANI) Might 9, 2025

“There have been many workforce members and employees personnel. Plus, there have been many individuals from BCCI, a digicam crew, technical and operations individuals. The entire crew was very huge, and the way in which they managed it was excellent. I want to thank once more BCCI plus Indian Railways,” mentioned 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 consequence 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 assist employees members of each groups, in addition to different personnel working across the sport in Dharamshala, headed again to their respective motels safely underneath tight safety.

With Dharamshala being a no-fly zone, similar to different North Indian cities, the principle concern amongst prime individuals 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’d go from Dharamshala to Jalandhar in a convoy of buses and board their prepare to New Delhi.

“The plan was there earlier to take the prepare to New Delhi from Pathankot, however from a safety and gamers’ security standpoint, Jalandhar seemed a lot safer on the finish. With the assistance of police from each Himachal Pradesh and Punjab, together with different safety officers, all the pieces was readied meticulously to accommodate everybody within the journey from Dharamshala to Jalandhar after which to New Delhi,” mentioned sources conscious of developments to IANS.

The Indian Premier League additionally put out a submit on X, previously Twitter, thanking the Railways Ministry for arranging the prepare.

“Thanks, @RailMinIndia, for arranging a particular Vande Bharat prepare on such brief discover to ferry the gamers, assist employees, commentators, manufacturing crew members, and operations employees to New Delhi. We deeply admire your swift response,” mentioned the submit, which was accompanied by a video exhibiting 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 motels in Dharamshala weren’t precisely informed earlier than hand about the place they’d board the prepare for going to New Delhi.

Even when somebody knew of particulars, they have been informed to take care of confidentiality underneath very strict safety causes and have been shunned 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 stress between India and Pakistan. The match 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 match will get a window for resumption.

–IANS

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