Australian batter Usman Khawaja says he’s “stranded” and unable to enter India as a consequence of visa points.
The veteran left-hand opener posted on Instagram on Wednesday with a meme and the caption, “me ready for my Indian visa like…” adopted by plenty of hashtags, together with the phrases “stranded” and “normal”.
The primary group of Australian gamers flew out of Sydney on Tuesday after attending the Allan Border Medal ceremony the night time earlier than. A second flight took off on Wednesday, however Khawaja was on neither.
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Cricket Australia advised Extensive World of Sports activities Khawaja is anticipated to have his visa cleared and fly to India on Thursday.
The 36-year-old was not scheduled to coach on Thursday regardless, so his preparation isn’t anticipated to be considerably impacted.
Australia will play 4 Check matches in opposition to India, the primary beginning in Nagpur on February 9.
Khawaja has by no means performed a Check in India however is the shape batter within the Australian line-up, and was awarded the boys’s Check Participant of the 12 months award on the AB Medal night time.
In 2022 he amassed an unbelievable 1080 runs at a mean of 67.50 in Check cricket.
Khawaja additionally bumped into visa bother when he was making an attempt to fly to India in 2011 for the Champions League Twenty20 event.
Australian officers on the time urged the problem had nothing to do with Khawaja’s Pakistani heritage.
Khawaja tweeted in 2011 about that incident.
“‘Indian visa division have to type their points out. Refusing to let me journey to India as an Australian, as a result of I wasn’t born right here. Wow,” he stated in 2011.
Extensive World of Sports activities isn’t suggesting this new incident has something to do with Khawaja’s heritage.
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