A char­ter flight is cur­rent­ly be­ing arranged to trans­port the West In­dies se­nior men's T20 crick­et team safe­ly out of In­dia, where it has been strand­ed since Mon­day's de­feat against In­dia in a Su­per 8s match, con­firm­ing their ex­it from the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.

The team has been strand­ed in In­dia due to in­ter­na­tion­al air­space re­stric­tions aris­ing from se­cu­ri­ty con­cerns in the Gulf re­gion; how­ev­er, yes­ter­day Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) con­firmed the team's ex­pect­ed de­par­ture is sched­uled with­in the next 24 hours sub­ject to fi­nal air traf­fic ap­provals.

This fol­lows a "high-lev­el" call held on Thurs­day in­volv­ing CWI, In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) of­fi­cials, a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of team man­age­ment, and a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the play­ers.

Be­fore the CWI up­date, head coach Daren Sam­my made his frus­tra­tion pub­lic when he made a post on the so­cial me­dia site X, which read, "I just wan­na go home."

Four hours af­ter his ini­tial post, Sam­my made an­oth­er pub­lic plea for feed­back, post­ing, 'At least an up­date; tell us some­thing. To­day, tmw, next week. It's been 5 days.'

Six hours af­ter that post, Sam­my fol­lowed up with, "Got an up­date. That's all wi want­ed."

CWI as­sures that it has re­mained in con­stant di­a­logue with the play­ers, team man­age­ment, and the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) since their last match, re­it­er­at­ing that the sit­u­a­tion re­mains com­plex and flu­id. CWI as­sured the pub­lic that every pre­cau­tion is be­ing tak­en to en­sure the safe re­turn of the team to the Caribbean. It said the team re­mains safe and well as arrange­ments con­tin­ue to be fi­nalised and that the safe re­turn of play­ers and staff re­mains the high­est pri­or­i­ty.