Umpires lodge report about Indian dissent

Umpires Darrell Hair and Simon Taufel have lodged a report with match referee Dick French about dissent by the Indian team during Saturday's third day of the tour match against New South Wales at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

Brian Hughes, the chief executive of the New South Wales Cricket Umpires Association, said that the umpires had reported that the Indians had been standing in the middle of the pitch watching the television replays on the scoreboard of a couple of controversial umpiring decisions and not "getting on with the game".

Gavin Robertson survived an lbw appeal from the bowling of Anil Kumble late in the day that the Indian team were very confident about. In the final over of the day, Greg Hayne was given not out to an appeal for a catch at bat-pad off Kumble, television replays apparently showing a clear edge off the bat to the pad before being caught by Laxman. Later in that over Darrell Hair spoke with Indian captain Saurav Ganguly.

No individuals were singled out in the report from the umpires, and this was the only incident mentioned in the report.

Hughes said that the report has been forwarded to the Indian team management for any action they consider appropriate. The match, not being a full international, falls outside the jurisdiction of the Australian Cricket Board and also outside the jurisdiction of the New South Wales Cricket Association, Hughes said.

When asked if Ganguly or any of the Indian management had registered any complaint against the umpires, Hughes said that nothing had yet been stated, but that both captains would, as a matter of course, submit a report on the game to the Australian Cricket Board once it was completed.