Team India Victory Parade Highlights: Rohit Sharma's T20 World Cup winners felicitated, take lap of honour at Wankhede

Team India Arrival Live Updates: The BCCI has posted a video containing valuable inside footage of the team's arrival at the airport.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: India now have two titles each in the ODI and T20I World Cups. The first was in 1983 when Kapil Dev's team, considered rank outsiders before the tournament, stunned the world-beating West Indies in the final to win their first-ever World Cup title. The second ODI World Cup title came nearly three decades later in 2011 when MS Dhoni led India to victory against Sri Lanka in the final at the Wankhede Stadium. Before that came the victory in the 2007 T20 World Cup in what was Dhoni's first ever assignment as India captain in any format. 17 years later, Rohit Sharma's men have claimed the country's second T20 World Cup victory.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: He had to endure the sadness of seeing his beloved South Africa lose in the final but Proteas legend AB de Villiers was all praise for the Indian players, particularly Hardik Pandya. "What stands out for me are the big moments. A guy like Hardik Pandya who's been through a roller-coaster himself with Mumbai Indians – moving from Gujarat to Mumbai – and all the criticism he coped with, getting the ball from the captain in the final of the T20 World Cup. That was his moment to go like, 'You know what… all Indian fans out there, this is what I am about as a cricket player'," De Villiers said on his YouTube channel.

"He made everyone proud out there. Even though I did not want him to succeed like that, I look back and have a lot of respect for that. He is a big man for a big moment and that's exactly the way he played. To all you Mumbai Indians fans out there who doubted him, I'm pretty sure he has secured a spot in your hearts for the future."

Team India Arrival Live Updates: There are two highlights to this day for the players. One is happening right now as they meet the Prime Minister, the next will be the open top bus parade from Nariman Point, along Marine Drive to the Wankhede Stadium over two hours. This is the open-top bus that will be used for the parade.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: There is one more important difference between the jerseys that the team wore at the 2024 T20 World Cup and the one they are wearing today. There are two stars above the BCCI logo, as opposed to the one that has been there since 2007. It has taken 17 years for that star count to double. Regardless of what changes happen to the jersey from here on, those two stars will stay constant and can only be added on.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: The players and coaching staff are meeting the Prime Minister and the session started at 11am. They will have breakfast before making their way back to the Maurya.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: We had stated earlier that what the players and coaching staff are wearing today is the jersey they wore during the 2024 T20 World Cup with the words “CHAMPIONS” printed underneath the country's name. Sanju Samson has now given us a proper look of the shirt in an Instagram story.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: Right, here are the images of the team bus entering the PM's residence. Remember, the meet begins at 11am, the team will have breakfast with the Prime Minister and then head back for the hotel, from where they go back to the airport and catch a flight for Mumbai.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: Right there are visuals of the team bus entering the premises of the Prime Minister's residence. The meeting is likely to start at 11am, the players will be having breakfast with PM Modi.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: Here we go then, the convoy has moved. It takes about 15 odd minutes to go from the ITC Maurya to the PM's residence. Considering the fact that the roads have been cordoned off and there is going to be no traffic for this bus to navigate through, the team should cover this distance in about 10 minutes.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: Right, the police escort has fired up those sirens, the players and coaching staff are in the bus. The families of the players and staff were with the team on the way from the airport but that is not the case this time, which is why they are using only one of the two buses.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: We mentioned earlier that the players are wearing the jerseys that the team wore during the 2024 T20 World Cup. Well it is the jersey but with a difference, they have the word "CHAMPIONS" printed beneath the name of the team in the front of the shirt.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: The chefs ask the other players who walked by to look at the cake but it was Rahul Dravid who finally cut it. He gave the chefs a thumbs up as well. We can also see Axar Patel taking a selfie with a member of the hotel staff before getting inside the bus.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: Rohit Sharma has cut the cake, but he didn't eat it. The two buses are beginning to move out of the hotel and it is the Prime Minister's residence where the meeting will take place, as opposed to his office but we will have confirmation of that shortly. The players are wearing the jerseys they wore during the tournament.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: 10am to 12 noon is the window for the Indian team to meet the Prime Minister. They are expected to come down from their rooms any time now. The crowds near the hotel have only swollen since the time that the players arrived.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: We earlier looked at Indian captain Rohit Sharma's number. Now let's take a look at a career that is probably the greatest ever seen in T20 internationals. Virat Kohli played his first T20 World Cup in 2012. He was the highest run-scorer in the 2014 T20 World Cup, where India finished runners-up to Sri Lanka, the second-highest run scorer in the 2016 T20 World Cup where India lost to eventual champions West Indies in the semi-finals, the highest runscorer in the 2022 T20 World Cup where India lost to England in the semi-finals. He was the highest run scorer of all time in T20Is a number of times in his career, with the record being almost a weekly battle between him and Rohit at one point. Having made his debut in 2010 against Zimbabwe, Kohli has scored 4188 runs in 125 matches at a stunning average of 48.69 and strike rate of 137.04. He has 38 half-centuries to his name and one century.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: India weren't really challenged too much throughout this T20 World Cup. Australia were always facing an uphill struggle against them in the Super 8, although they did well in the steep chase for a while. But the only times in this tournament when it really looked like India could lose a match was going towards the last five overs of the final and in the first half of Pakistan's chase during the clash between the arch-rivals in the group stage.

India were all out for just 119 runs with Pakistan pacers Naseem Shah, Mohammad Amir, Haris Rauf and Shaheen Afridi making the most of the pace-friendly conditions in New York. Pakistan looked like they were cruising in the first 10 overs of their chase and then Jasprit Bumrah led the way as India starved them for runs. Mohammad Rizwan trying a big shot against the Indian pace ace and perishing in the 15th over was the decisive turning point and India ended up winning by six runs.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: He is a man who knows a thing or two about winning World Cups, the BCCI president. Roger Binny, famously part of Kapil Dev's team India that won the 1983 World Cup, has arrived at the ITC Maurya. He will be joining Team India as they celebrate their ICC T20 World Cup triumph.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: The team is expected to cut a cake prepared by the hotel before they leave for the PMO. The cake is blue at the bottom, orange in the middle and white at the top, with the bottom two showing the colours of the Indian jersey. At the top of it all is a replica of the T20 World Cup trophy.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: Both India and South Africa had gone into the final in Barbados without losing a match. It meant that one of the two teams was going to go unbeaten throughout the tournament, something that had never happened before in the T20 World Cup. In fact the last time it happened at any ICC tournament was in 2013 when MS Dhoni's India did it. The last time it happened at any World Cup was when Australia won the ODI title in 2007 at the same venue as that of the 2024 T20 World Cup.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: Fresh visuals from the ITC Maurya shows that it wasn't just Suryakumar Yadav who did the bhangra after exiting the team bus. Yashasvi Jaiswal briefly joined him while captain Rohit Sharma himself shook a leg or two.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: Team India Arrival Live Updates: Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Wednesday sought a report from Air India after a scheduled flight it was to operate was allegedly deployed for flying out India’s victorious T20 World Cup team from Barbados. DGCA’s step came following reports that the airline pulled out its Boeing 777 originally scheduled to operate a regular flight from Newark to Delhi for the trip out of Barbados, causing difficulties for passengers. Read more

Team India Arrival Live Updates: Fresh visuals from the ITC Maurya shows Suryakumar Yadav showing that he doesn't have too many problems as far as energy is concerned despite the long flight from Barbados and the long day he has ahead of him. He got out of the team bus and danced his heart out with the part of the welcome party that was doing bhangra and playing the dhol.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: Rohit Sharma's T20I debut came in India's 2007 T20 World Cup group match against England in Durban. He ended up not batting at all in that match but the youngster became an important part of MS Dhoni's title-winning team over the course of the tournament. He has held the title of highest-ever T20I run scorer a number of times throughout his career, often being overtaken, and snatching it from, his longtime teammate Virat Kohli. Rohit finishes as the highest run scorer with 4231 runs at a strike rate of 140.89 and average of 32.05. He finishes with 32 half-centuries and a record five centuries, the joint most by any batter in men's T20Is alongwith Glenn Maxwell.

Team India Arrival Live Updates: The two seniormost players in this team announced their retirement from the format after the final. Rohit and Kohli have been the two most dominant batters in T20 internationals for a number of years. There was even a period not too long ago when they kept exchanging the no.1 spot in the all-time highest T20I run scorers' list. Rohit had been with the Indian team when they won the inaugural T20 World Cup in 2007 and has played every edition of the tournament since. Kohli retires as the all-time highest run scorer in the history of T20 internationals.