These gents who have taken to basking in a paddling pool with a copy of The Canberra Times are evidently among the Australian cricket fans who can't get enough of our coverage of the gentleman's sport.
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However, an Indian news outlet isn't exactly showing us much love.
The Times of India had an online broadcast complete with dramatic close-ups and zoom-ins of The Canberra Times' sport pages.
Its description said Team India was ''laughing their guts out'' at the suggestion in Australian media that they toyed with the idea of boycotting the ongoing three-day warm-up game against the Cricket Australia Chairman's XI in Canberra because of rain, with a reporter going on to suggest the Australian media was playing ''dirty games'' and ''doing what they know best - trying to rile up the opposition through unfair means''.
''The hosts are leaving no stone unturned to have a go at the Indians,'' the online bulletin said.
The reporter added, ''It's the Aussie way of deflecting attention and pressure and also distracting the visiting team when the home team is down and out.''
The report in question that has cricket lovers so steamed up was a Tuesday edition yarn under the headline ''India threatens to quit with bizarre complaint''.
The story referred to a ''flippant'' remark from an Indian support staffer worried the wet weather would interfere with the team's preparations for the Boxing Day Test match. It quoted Manuka Oval venue manager Matthew Tokley as saying, ''He [said], 'We may as well go to Melbourne.'''
The reporter made it clear the whole thing was then ''blown out of proportion'', ''a storm in a teacup'' and a problem with a chain of ''Chinese whispers''.
And apparently Team India itself wasn't particularly vexed by any of this and was treating the episode as ''comic relief''.
