The bitter rivalry between Australian and West Indian players seen to have spilled on to the cricket field. The West Indian players did not like Aussie seamer James Faulkner's jibe at them during the Twenty20 World Cup 2014 in Bangladesh. Faulkner had said he did not like the West Indian team and planning to get under their skin. In a bitter match West Indies beat Australia to knock them out of the tournament. The Faulkner jibe had made the West Indian players angry and the Starc and Pollard ugly confrontation is a result of the on-going feud between the two sides.