The winning Indian cricket team of the T20 World Cup might be able to return home on Tuesday night.
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has mentioned that she anticipates the airport resuming operations within the "next six to 12 hours" following the shutdown caused by a category 4 hurricane.
The team, led by Rohit Sharma, along with their support staff, a few BCCI officials, and the families of the players, have been stuck here for the past two days due to hurricane Beryl. They clinched the title on Saturday by defeating South Africa in the final by seven runs.
"We hope, and we're working towards later today. I don't want to speak in advance of it, but I've literally been in touch with the airport personnel, and they're doing their last checks now, and we want to resume normal operations as a matter of urgency," Mottley, who has been overseeing relief operations on the ground, told PTI.
"There are a number of people who were due to leave yet last night late or today or tomorrow morning. And we want to make sure that we can facilitate those persons, so I would anticipate that within the next six to 12 hours the airport will be open," she said.
Life-threatening winds and a storm battered Barbados and the neighbouring islands on Monday. Barbados, which has a population of nearly 300,000, has been under lockdown since Sunday evening.
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