Updated On: 10 May, 2021 07:12 AM IST | Auckland | PTI
Cricketers Trent Boult, Finn Allen, Jimmy Neesham, Adam Milne and Scott Kuggeleijn, coaches and former players James Pamment and Shane Bond, and Royal Challengers Bangalore`s director of cricketing operations Mike Hesson were the first to land here late on Saturday night.

Trent Boult. Pic/Suresh Karkera
All New Zealand cricketers and coaches, who were involved in IPL 2021, have arrived home safely by private jets in two groups after the indefinite suspension of the T20 league midway into the season due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The lucrative league was suspended on May 4 after multiple Covid-19 cases were reported inside its bio-bubble. Cricketers Trent Boult, Finn Allen, Jimmy Neesham, Adam Milne and Scott Kuggeleijn, coaches and former players James Pamment and Shane Bond, and Royal Challengers Bangalore`s director of cricketing operations Mike Hesson were the first to land here late on Saturday night. They arrived on board a Bombardier Global Express private jet via Tokyo in the first of two chartered flights repatriating the Kiwis after the league was suspended.