Sydney, Dec 5: The Indian team management was today served with an official complaint by match referee Dick French for dissent shown by the players on the final day of the four-day cricket match against New South Wales.Umpires Darrel Hair and Simon Taufel reported the matter to French after the Indians reacted to a couple of dubious decisions. ``The report was handed to them (Indian management) this morning,'' said Brian Hughes, chief executive of the New South Wales Cricket Association.The umpires reported skipper Saurav Ganguly for standing in the middle watching replays on the giant screen, which amounts to dissent under the ICC rules of conduct, Hughes said.Yesterday, Hair had walked up from his position at square-leg and spoken to Ganguly at first slip after Taufel had rejected a bat-pad appeal against nightwatchman Gavin Robertson off the bowling of Anil Kumble. The TV replays showed Robertson was out.Hair had a heated row with Ganguly over a sweeping comment by the umpire about Indian andPakistani players. When asked about the report, Indian coach Kapil Dev said: ``I am not sitting on a horse to dash. I will take my own sweet time to decide on it (the report).''``If I feel it is necessary to reply, I will reply. If I don't feel like it, I won't,'' said Kapil, looking relaxed and cheerful.Hughes confirmed India was not obliged to reply to the complaint. Usually such reports would have been sent to the Australian Cricket Board (ACB) via ICC match referees for Tests, but for tour matches there is no such stipulation.There was no particular incident in the middle today, though twice things came to near boil. First Taufel spoke to speedster Javagal Srinath after the bowler walked off without collecting his cap at the end of the over, miffed at being denied a leg before appeal.The very next over, Venkatesh Prasad had a big appeal for catch behind against Brad Haddin turned down by Hair. The Indians were clearly upset and Hair called over Ganguly and told him to cool off.Later, whenAjit Agarkar bowled Haddin for 23, Hair walked up to the Indians and asked for the ball. He then looked at it suspiciously, perhaps to check whether it had been tampered with, before returning it to Ganguly.Asked whether Ganguly might not have crossed the limits again today when he questioned Hair on a few of the decisions which did not go in their favour, Kapil said, ``I don't understand this code of conduct. I don't know what crossing the limits is. It may mean two different things to two different people. Where to draw the line.``An umpire's main job is to conduct the game happily and healthily, that is important,'' said Kapil, who had reacted strongly to the comments made by Hair yesterday.``Let's put it this way - these are only hiccups. These things will come and go. We have come here to play and play well,'' the Indian coach said.Ganguly played down his showdown with Hair. ``We all make mistakes. You can get carried away in the heat of the moment . but one must forget it.''Asked why hehad run up to Hair after an appeal was turned down, Ganguly said: ``I just went to ask whether it was going down the leg side or was it bouncing.''Michael Bevan said the Indians were ``very aggressive in terms of appealing . and that puts a great deal of pressure on the umpires." He said India would be better off without it for it could turn against them in the Test series.
