There is one Aussie in the city these days that the cameras never leave. And he isn’t even a cricketer.

Sitting at the Cricket Club of India reception lounge sporting an ear-to-ear smile, Gus Worland can pass off as just another happy fan from Down Under expecting a 5-1 scoreline at Wankhede. That’s when one notices a camera crew in the background and eventually comes to know about the observational documentary called An Aussie Goes Bolly that has Worland in the lead role.

He is a celebrity of sorts back home since this AAGB is a sequel to another AAGB — An Aussie Goes Barmy — that got record breaking television ratings in Australia during England’s Ashes losing tour last year. And sticking to the success formula, AAGB II too aspires to elevate the fan on the couch at home to the stadium terraces, besides giving an idea of the adventures of a cricket-tourist.

As the show’s executive producer of Granada Productions Pvt Ltd Mathew Weiss put it: “It is entertainment. The show is a combination of a daily soap and cricket. Something that can be watched by a cricket fan and those not interested in the game but into television drama.”

If the 38-year-old Worland was fearless enough to sit in the middle of the famously noisy English travelling fans during the games and later dine/drink with them too after every day of Aussie domination last year, the present assignment too hasn’t been one for the faint-hearted.

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