Air India comes to the rescue of Indian cricket team

New Delhi, September 09: Air India has come to the rescue of the Indian cricket team scheduled to go to Colombo tomorrow for the tri-nation one-day series which began there today.

They were supposed to fly by the Jet Airways whose services have been hit by the ongoing strike by its pilots, an Air India spokesman said.

Air india will operate a special flight from Chennai at 1100hrs tomorrow to reach Bangalore where it will pick up players including skipper M S Dhoni, yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh and R P Singh playing for the Air India team in the BCCI corporate trophy before leaving for Colombo.

–PTI