Oodles of aggression, a deep batting unit, and a flexible set of bowlers – these will not be the one issues powering Australia on the ongoing Ladies’s ODI World Cup 2025. A pair of followers who travelled right here from Perth to shadow the staff throughout the nation – and past the borders to Colombo – to assist the defending champion have caught the eyes of cameras, fellow followers, and even the Australian staff.
Jake Jeakings isn’t any stranger to Indian cricket followers, having develop into a daily IPL in-stadia attendee and a liked social media character over the previous few years. Alongside him on a scorching and humid day right here on the ACA-VDCA Stadium was his father, Andrew, who works as a financial institution supervisor.
For Jake, India has develop into a second dwelling.
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For Jake, India has develop into a second dwelling.
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Instagram/Jake Jeakings
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Regardless of being in ‘enemy territory’, they aren’t shy to place up flags and banners to let the world know the place their allegiance lies.
“I’ve all the time liked watching cricket in India. To not sit with a tour group, however to sit down amongst the Indian followers and expertise the eagerness. Personally, I feel the Indian cricket followers are probably the most passionate on this planet for cricket,” Andrew instructed Sportstar.
“I used to be in India for the 2023 Males’s World Cup. The primary recreation I watched was Australia vs India in Chennai, which we misplaced. However I had a powerful day sitting with the Bharat Military. It was a very great day. I inform all people that it’s probably the greatest days I’ve ever had in cricket in my life,” he added.
For Jake, India has develop into a second dwelling.
“That is my ninth time in India. I really like coming right here to observe cricket. I’m accustomed to the warmth, meals and all the things – although I don’t just like the music, I don’t assume it’s loud sufficient,” he mentioned, as common Tollywood beats echoed across the venue and paused the dialog for just a few seconds.
“When Travis Head and Pat Cummins joined Sunrisers Hyderabad, that’s once I actually began to observe them intently. However now it’s past that. Each time I step foot into that stadium, individuals all the time ask, ‘How are you, Jake?’, ‘Ah, Sam Curran doppelganger.’ It seems like I’m welcome there. Hyderabad is like my household, as is the Orange Military.”
Jake’s likeness to the England all-rounder is the subject of a lot amusement within the Jeakings family.
“In a pub in Chennai, they introduced over the speaker that Sam Curran’s in the home. All of the followers gathered round him, and this couple requested me if I used to be his coach. They didn’t consider us after we instructed them he isn’t Sam. I’m positive I introduced the best child dwelling!” Andrew quipped.
In addition they underlined that India vs Australia is the spiciest rivalry in worldwide cricket. “Don’t fear concerning the Ashes. It’s second to this rivalry. Adam Gilchrist was doing ‘Bazball’ 20 years in the past. We win collection in England on a regular basis. However we don’t win right here on a regular basis,” he added.
The ladies’s aspect’s victory towards India of their World Cup group fixture solely provides to the lore, they pair emphasised.
“That recreation ranks in my high three video games ever. To have been right here and witnessed that stay was simply an incredible expertise. It was a kind of video games the place you say that cricket was a winner. What it did was it confirmed that ladies’s sport and girls’s cricket might be an thrilling sport, high-scoring, nice fielding. Their abilities are good and that recreation showcased girls’s cricket and the way good it’s,” Andrew opined.
Printed on Oct 17, 2025