Australian batter Usman Khawaja says he’s “stranded” and unable to enter India resulting from 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 a variety 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 evening earlier than. A second flight took off on Wednesday, however Khawaja was on neither.
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Cricket Australia advised Broad World of Sports activities Khawaja is predicted 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 is just not anticipated to be considerably impacted.
Australia will play 4 Take a look at matches towards India, the primary beginning in Nagpur on February 9.
Khawaja has by no means performed a Take a look at in India however is the shape batter within the Australian line-up, and was awarded the boys’s Take a look at Participant of the 12 months award on the AB Medal evening.
In 2022 he amassed an unimaginable 1080 runs at a mean of 67.50 in Take a look at cricket.
Khawaja additionally bumped into visa hassle when he was trying to fly to India in 2011 for the Champions League Twenty20 event.
Australian officers on the time instructed the problem had nothing to do with Khawaja’s Pakistani heritage.
Khawaja tweeted in 2011 about that incident.
“‘Indian visa division have to kind 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 mentioned in 2011.
Broad World of Sports activities is just not suggesting this new incident has something to do with Khawaja’s heritage.
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