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”.