WATCH: Goosebumps Guaranteed As Fans Give Team India Players Rousing Send Off For World Cup

Team India, on Wednesday, left for England from Mumbai airport to participate in the much-anticipated ICC World Cup 2019. The twelfth edition of the competition will get underway on May 30 with hosts England taking on South Africa in a mouth-watering tournament-opener. India, on the other hand, will open their campaign on June 5 against South Africa.

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There is also a new format in place for the forthcoming tournament. In this year’s tournament, the teams have not been divided into separate groups. Instead, all the ten teams will play against each other once before the top four teams make it to the semifinal. The winners of the semifinals will then take on each other in the final on July 14 at the Lord’s. It will be the fifth World Cup-final at the iconic ground.

Team India will be one of the favourites for the forthcoming World Cup. The Men in Blue have dominated the ODIs since the conclusion of the last World Cup in 2015. In fact, India is the most successful team since the last World Cup with 55 wins in ODIs. Unsurprisingly, the expectations are sky high from Virat Kohli & Co. as they look to bring the World Cup home.

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And as the players were leaving for England, the fans gave them a rousing goodbye. The fans thronged the Mumbai Airport and chanted ‘India, India’ as the team came out of the bus and headed towards the airport.

Here is a clip of that moment:

Team India at CSIA Airport Mumbai, departing for World Cup in England.#TeamIndia#BREAKING#BreakingNews pic.twitter.com/AFQ0oyqVTn

— vinay singh (@thevinaysingh) May 21, 2019

I recorded this video ???

Kohli, Dhoni & Pandya ??#CWC19 #TeamIndia pic.twitter.com/jeCpNWli16

— Vinesh Prabhu (@vlp1994) May 21, 2019

Skipper Virat Kohli, meanwhile, has said that the upcoming tournament is the most challenging World Cup. Kohli has so far played two World Cups including the one in 2011 that India won.

“Personally, I think this is probably the most challenging World Cup of all the three that I’ve been a part of, because of the format,” Kohli said before the team’s departure. “Everyone has to be at their best intensity from the first match onward and we don’t have any room for complacency. That’s why it’s the World Cup, that’s why it’s the most important tournament in the world. We expect that kind of pressure from the first second.”