Star batter Usman Khawaja has been cleared to affix his Australian teammates in India after his visa points have been sorted.
Pakistan-born Khawaja will fly out of Melbourne on Thursday, greater than a day later than deliberate, after an anxious look ahead to his visa to be authorized.
Approval for arrival into India can typically be complicated and time-consuming, however each different member of Australia’s 18-man squad was granted entry in time to take flights on Tuesday and Wednesday to their coaching camp in Bangalore.
The visa course of for entry to India asks candidates whether or not they or their dad and mom are of Pakistani origin.
It isn’t the primary time Khawaja, who was born within the Pakistani capital Islamabad, has confronted visa challenges when making an attempt to enter India.
In 2011, the batter took to social media to vent his frustration that he had not been allowed to enter the nation as a result of he was not born in Australia.
On Wednesday, Australia’s opener posted a well-liked meme on Instagram together with the hashtags “stranded”, “dontleaveme”, “commonplace” and “anytimenow”.
The stylish left-hander was not as a result of practice with teammates in Bangalore on Thursday, no matter his arrival standing, and the staff’s hierarchy will not be involved the delay will have an effect on his preparation.
Khawaja, set to play his first Check match in India this month, has been cleared to enter the nation on quite a few events earlier than.
He toured with the Check staff in 2013, when he was a part of the notorious homework-gate scandal with teammates James Pattinson, Shane Watson and Mitchell Johnson.
Khawaja additionally represented Rising Pune Supergiant within the IPL in 2016, performed for Australia A on an Indian tour in 2018, and toured once more with the nationwide ODI staff in 2019 when he scored two centuries.
The revival of Khawaja’s worldwide profession was one of many cricket tales of 2022, with the participant starring after his recall into the Check staff following greater than two years within the wilderness.
He put in a career-best 12 months to assert Australia’s Shane Warne Award as the boys’s Check participant of the 12 months, and was named as an opener within the ICC’s finest XI.
Khawaja starred with 496 runs at a mean of 165.33 throughout Australia’s gritty 1-Zero Check sequence win in Pakistan in 2022, the staff’s first tour of the nation in 24 years.
The blockbuster four-Check sequence in opposition to India begins in Nagpur on February 9.
