5 lessons that the Indian fans should learn from the Ashes series

Be the 12th man for your team

The Aussie crowd really got under Broad’s skin!

Do you support your team when it’s losing? A team doesn’t need support when it’s doing well but it needs the good wishes of the fans when things aren’t going their way. The Indian fans rubbished the Indian team during the recent India-South Africa ODI series. Agreed, India was poor in the two ODIs against South Africa but did they deserve such a severe backlash from the fans?

However, those same fans were back when India bounced back in the Test series but sorry to say, that’s not what real fans do. The Aussie fans showed how to be the 12th man of a team. Right from Brisbane, the fans had the team’s back. They got under Stuart Broad’s skin and clearly got onto England’s nerves.

Not only the fans, the media too, did their bit. They targeted Broad, made him the Phantom warrior and cornered England into a very uncomfortable hole. The results were evident – Jonathan Trott gave in, Graeme Swann gave up and the urn was snatched back.

Moral of the story - Win or lose, it’s your team, stick by it!