Virat Kohli & Team India leaves for England: Viral Photos here

Men in Blue are all set for the World Cup 2019, while Virat Kohli will be leading the team for the first time in a World Cup as a captain. This will be Kohli's third World Cup, he has already been a part of the showpiece event twice in 2011 and 2015. He won his first World Cup in 2011 when MS Dhoni captioned India to glory.

In the wee hours of the morning, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) shared pictures of India players before the flight to England. "Jet set to go," the BCCI captioned the pictures. In the pictures, the World Cup squad were seen in official uniforms at the Mumbai airport.

The final 15 members of the squad along with the team staff boarded a flight for England at 4:30 sharp in the morning on Tuesday. Dhoni, Kohli, Yuzvendra Chahal, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Dinesh Karthik, Rohit Sharma, Vijay Shankar, Kedar Jadhav, KL Rahul, Mohammed Shami, Shikhar Dhawan and Bhuvneshwar Kumar were seen in the seen in the airport pictures shared by the BCCI.

According to Sports NDTV report, India will commence their World Cup 2019 campaign against South Africa in Southampton on June 5. However, Virat Kohli's men will play two warm-up matches before the ICC mega event -- against New Zealand at Kennington Oval on Saturday and Bangladesh in Cardiff on Tuesday.