The Board of Control in India informed that the members of both the men’s and women’s team of the country have reached Mumbai, their destination for the two weeks hard quarantine, before departure to England.
Sharing the pictures of the flight where Men’s team member Ravichandran Ashwin and Women’s team captain Mithali Raj can be seen seating side by side, the official Twitter handle of BCCI captioned it as, “First stop, Mumbai #TeamIndia.”
While the Indian Men’s team first assignment in England includes the World Test Championship Final at Southampton against New Zealand starting June 18, the team led by Mithali Raj would take on hosts England in one-off Tests at county Ground Bristol starting June 16.
Both the teams will depart from India on June 2 and are expected to undergo a sofer quarantine regime on landing in England.
The Women’s team is supposed to play a three meach each ODI and t20i series post the Test match while the Men’s team would have to wait almost 40 days before they get into international action against the hosts England. The Virat Kohli led side would play a five-match Test series against Joe Root’s team starting August 4.