New Zealand cricketer Mitchell Santner. Photo: PHOTOSPORT
New Zealand cricketers Mitchell Santner and Bevon-John Jacobs remain in India despite wanting to return home.
The majority of the New Zealand players involved in the Indian Premier League and the Pakistan Super League fled the region because of the tension between the two nations.
IPL players Devon Conway, Rachin Ravindra and Trent Boult arrived home on Sunday, but Santner and Jacobs were scheduled to leave on later flights.
However, before they could fly out India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire.
"Unfortunately they're still there, they'd much rather be home," New Zealand Cricket Players Association chief executive Heath Mills told Morning Report.
It appears Santner and Jacobs were persuaded by the Mumbai Indians to stay, with talk that the competition could resume at the end of this week.
"Ideally those two players will be able to come home at some point but we just need to wait and see at the moment," Mills said.
"We're just doing our best to keep our communication up with the players and offer them health and well-being support through our network that we have in place.
"We are really in the hands in the Indian Premier League and the team owners, so we'll just wait and see how this ceasefire turns out over the next two or three days."
Bevon-John Jacobs playing for Auckland 2025. Photo: PHOTOSPORT
Nine other current or former Black Caps involved in the Pakistan Super League had also flown back from Dubai after that competition had been postponed indefinitely.
They had gone to the United Arab Emirates on Friday after the Pakistan Cricket Board relocated the tournament from Pakistan, but the board later called a halt to the tournament, saying that cricket "must take a respectful pause" amid the conflict.
The New Zealanders involved in this year's Pakistan Super League are: former captain Kane Williamson, Tim Seifert, Adam Milne, Daryl Mitchell, Michael Bracewell, Finn Allen, Mark Chapman, Kyle Jamieson and Colin Munro.
