Sydney: Australians have acclaimed their cricket team’s epic series win over South Africa, but not the manner in which they achieved it. The team was rebuked by sections of the media on Friday over their on-field behaviour during the final Cape Town Test.
“The sight of Michael Clarke angrily confronting umpires and Australian fieldsmen barking like dogs at batsmen left a lot of people cold and alienated from the team and its success,” News Ltd columnist Robert Craddock said.
Some were pictured howling following the dismissal of South African batsman Faf du Plessis, in reaction to Du Plessis’s comments likening them to “a pack of dogs” in the field.
Cricket Australia chief James Sutherland said the barking dogs incident might have been childish, but he saw it as funny. “That’s just typical childish cricketers, but he (Du Plessis) asked for that with his comments a few days earlier,” he said. in a radio interview.
