As many as 9,000 Australians - including the country's top cricket players - have been stranded in India by the government's ban on flights from the Covid-ravaged nation until May 15. Prime Minster Scott Morrison suspended all direct commercial flights and chartered repatriation flights on Tuesday afternoon as India suffers a huge surge in cases and deaths. He said eight planned chartered flights to the Northern Territory will be delayed until after mid-May and commercial flights may remain banned beyond then. Stranded Aussies will not even be able to book flights via a third country, with major air hubs Singapore, Malaysia and Qatar also banning travel.