Why do Australian cricket fans behave as they do?
By Neena Bhandari. New South Wales, Australia, 09:30 PM IST As emotions spilled over and cricket pierced the seams of civility, ceasing to be an on-field sport and becoming a war of words outside, Australian-Indians and Australians reflect on the emerging realities of this new world cricketing order. ‘This triumph was a long time coming. The good thing was that when it came it was full of confidence and vigour not seen in the Indian team for a while’, a keen Australian-Indian cricket fan who has watched most matches this summer told IANS. ‘I always felt Indians in India looked up to the Don’s country and gave a lot of undue credit of sportsmanship to Australia, though the Australian media used to be quite one-sided. However, this time the Indians put their foot down, saying enough is enough and Australian media is not used to it.’ Rosie Mathlin from Greenwich, who was quite close to the spectator Craig Woodbury, whose comments were quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald’s Sport section wi
