Re: T20 World Cup 2014
There is already some history between the Australians and Chris Gayle from last year, and James Faulkner’s comments ahead of his side’s World T20 clash with West Indies has only revived those feelings. Faulkner has said he does not “particularly like” the West Indies players, to which Darren Sammyhas replied that the Australia allrounder is probably the only cricketer who does not like the men from the Caribbean.
In his debut series early last year, Faulkner was fined a part of his match fee for shouting in Gayle’s direction after dismissing the batsman in Canberra. Faulkner suggested he would not hesitate to do something similar if it helped Australia in what is almost a must-win game for both sides.
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“I don’t particularly like them,” Faulkner said.** “Good players are good players. You have to do things to get under their skin and try and irritate them to try and get them off their game. Players do that to me and I do it to other players. It’s a fact of the game. A lot of it is played in your mind. If you can do something to upset somebody and upset their team, it goes a long way towards doing well as a group.”
Even Brad Haddin and Gayle had had a run-in last year during the Big Bash. **When Haddin **was dismissed by Gayle, Haddin said that at least then the fans of Gayle’s franchise had seen him do something for his money. Gayle had been having a poor tournament with the bat for Sydney Thunder. Gayle had responded with a tweet saying that he was better than Haddin even if he batted right-handed.