PHOTOS: Indian cricket team reaches St. Kitts

The most awaited India tour of West Indies has finally begun as the Indian cricket team safely reached the Caribbean islands. This is the first assignment of newly appointed India’s head coach Anil Kumble with the team and will look for a winning start. Team India left on Monday night and have now arrived safely for the four-match Test series and are certainly ecstatic about it. The long journey to West Indies has finally come to an end as the Indian cricket team will now start their preparations in full swing.  Kumble took to his Twitter handle to declare team’s arrival as he tweeted a picture of him along with other cricketers on the runway. READ MORE: VIDEO: Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan and others fail in Anil Kumble’s one-hour test

He tweeted:

Reached St. Kitts…long flight..@cheteshwar1 @klrahul11 @y_umesh Tour begins @BCCI pic.twitter.com/l2aEpOFSqp

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— Anil Kumble (@anilkumble1074) July 6, 2016

The 16-men squad will be led by Virat Kohli and all eyes are set at Antigua as the opening Test will be played on July 21. BCCI also posted a picture of few cricketers on their official Twitter handle: READ MORE: Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni and other Indian players bond over music

A long travel journey hasn’t curtailed spirits of @cheteshwar1 and @imjadeja as #TeamIndia arrives in St. Kitts pic.twitter.com/8gqcIWLArW — BCCI (@BCCI) July 6, 2016

Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin also posted a picture of the plane and announced their arrival.

After a long long flight!!St Kitts. pic.twitter.com/DO5HpAryFL

— Ashwin Ravichandran (@ashwinravi99) July 6, 2016

Earlier, Rohit Sharma shared a picture on Instagram of him long with some other teammates, who were seen having a ball on the flight.

And it begins

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Indian Test squad for West Indies: Virat Kohli (c), Ajinkya Rahane (vc), Murali Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Rohit Sharma, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), R Ashwin, Amit Mishra, Ravindra Jadeja, Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Shami, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Shardul Thakur, Stuart Binny.