Clarke's team carry on Cricket World Cup celebration

After a night of rejoicing in their World Cup win, the Australian cricket team continued to celebrate with a few thousand fans at Federation Square in Melbourne on Monday.
Following repeated questions from journalists about how good winning feels, the players – mostly sporting dark glasses – wandered into the crowd, signing autographs and posing for photos.
Appearing on stage fresh from the rooftop bar with the ICC Cricket World Cup trophy, outgoing one-day international captain, Michael Clarke
, was asked to describe his overriding emotion.
“A little hungover,” he said, to cheers from the crowd donning green and gold. “I think I speak for everybody in that sense. I guarantee you the boys will continue to celebrate today. It’s the Australian way.”
Following Sunday night’s win over New Zealand at the Melbourne Cricket Ground the former Test player and now commentator Shane Warne faced some criticism for encouraging the players to toast their success and for asking them if they were “thirsty”.
After Warne took to social media to defend himself, opener Aaron Finch said on Monday the team were entitled to celebrate.
“To finally get the prize after a lot of hard work... it went to plan from the start,” he said. “We had a great plan, and the bowlers stuck to it. It’s incredible work to restrict a side to 180. I think we’ve got every right to celebrate, to finally get the prize after a lot of hard work.”
Clarke played a central role in securing his team’s seven-wicket win over their trans-Tasman rivals and fellow co-hosts of the tournament, top scoring for Australia with 74.
His final ODI was witnessed by just over 93,000 people at the MCG, the largest crowd ever at an Australian cricket event. Clarke said it was “the right time” to end his one-day career. “I’ve been able to help the team as much as I can,” he said. “Now it’s time to focus on Test cricket, and there’s still plenty that I want to achieve. Hopefully this momentum can help us in the upcoming tours, whoever we’re playing.”
Despite their nightlong celebrations that continued as the sun rose on Monday, the team seemed energetic and happy to spend a couple of hours with their fans.
Player of the tournament, fast bowler Mitchell Starc, told supporters that he “got pretty lucky taking a few wickets”.
“The boys behind me played a massive part in that,” he said. He described taking out the World Cup on home ground as “a phenomenal feeling”.