WTC Final 2025: Why are South African and Australian players wearing black armbands?
South African and Australian players observed a minute’s silence and wore black armbands ahead of the third day of the World Test Championship (WTC) final as a tribute to the Air India plane crash victims.
An Air India passenger plane from Ahmedabad to London, carrying 242 passengers and crew, had crashed just moments after taking off from the Ahmedabad airport on Thursday afternoon.
The tragedy left 241 people on board dead, with only one person surviving. The total death toll has risen to 265 since the aircraft crashed into a medical college complex.
According to the airline, among the 230 passengers, 169 were Indians, 53 British nationals, seven Portuguese, and one Canadian. The other 12 onboard were crew members.
