Former England cricketer Michael Vaughan has slammed the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC), as a number of groups had been stranded in India after their elimination from the 2026 ICC Males’s T20 World Cup because of airspace closure within the Center East owing to the battle between USA-Israel and Iran taking on West Asia.
Vaughan took to social media, placing out a submit criticising the apex physique for offering England a chartered flight instantly after they had been eradicated however to not South Africa and West Indies, who had been eradicated earlier than them.
England had been eradicated on Thursday, March 5, and left India with a chartered flight on Saturday, March 7. South Africa had been eradicated on March 4, whereas the West Indies had been eradicated on March 1.
“Simply to allow you to all know that the West Indies received knocked out of the World Cup on March 1st. It is now March ninth. They’re nonetheless stranded in Kolkata .. SA are in the identical place .. !!!!!!!!!!!! This is not proper … England received on a constitution 36 hrs after being knocked out .. as ought to be the case for all groups,” he wrote on X (previously Twitter).
Simply to allow you to all know that the West Indies received knocked out of the World Cup on March 1st .. it’s now March ninth .. they’re nonetheless stranded in Kolkata .. SA are in the identical place .. !!!!!!!!!!!! This isn’t proper … England received on a constitution 36 hrs after being knocked out ..…
— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan) March 10, 2026
This follows a earlier submit from March 7 from the previous England captain, expressing comparable sentiments.
“So England received knocked out on Thurs[day] get a constitution dwelling right this moment .. West Indies exit final Sunday and are nonetheless in Kolkata .. SA in the identical place .. That’s the place the ability is all flawed .. All groups on this state of affairs ought to be handled the identical .. simply since you are extra highly effective on the ICC desk shouldn’t depend .. #JustSaying,” he posted on X (previously Twitter).
West Indies and South Africa groups are set to go away on Tuesday, March 10, on a particular chartered flight to Johannesburg, from the place the West Indies gamers will head to Antigua. This can embody 12 South African gamers and two help workers, and 12 West Indies gamers and ten help workers.
West Indies coach Darren Sammy can also be anticipated to go away on a flight to Singapore, together with three different West Indies gamers on different unconfirmed routes. Three South African gamers – Keshav Maharaj, George Linde and Jason Smith – have already left for New Zealand for a bilateral collection beginning on March 15.
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