With the airport likely to reopen in the "next six to 12 hours" due to Hurricane Beryl - a category 4 hurricane, Barbados prime minister Mia Mottley announced that the Indian team would return home via charter flight on Tuesday evening.

India defeated South Africa by a nail-biting 7-run margin in Barbados on Saturday (June 29), capping an 11-year trophy drought for the country.

Ever since, everyone from the Indian cricket players and their families to the support personnel and BCCI executives, such secretary Jay Shah, has been waiting impatiently for the hurricane to pass and the airports to open.

"We hope, and we're working towards later today. I don't want to speak in advance of it, but I've literally been in touch with the airport personnel and they're doing their last checks now and we want to resume to normal operations as a matter of urgency," Mottley told PTI.

"There are a number of people who were due to leave yet last night late or today or tomorrow morning. And we want to make sure that we can facilitate those persons, so I would anticipate that within the next six to 12 hours that the airport will be open," she added.

India will take a chartered flight to Delhi on Tuesday at 6 PM (3.30 AM IST on Wednesday) local time, according to journalists who are also stranded in Barbados. They should arrive in India by Wednesday evening.