The Board of Control for Cricket in India will ask the ICC to investigate the actions of match referee Jeff Crowe, who pursued unauthenticated media reports against Harbhajan Singh.
Many newspaper reports in Australia accused off-spinner Harbhajan of making monkey gestures at sections of the crowd during the first Commonwealth Bank Series final between Australia and India in Sydney.
Following the reports, referee Crowe proceeded with an investigation into the alleged incident, but decided to take no action against Harbhajan after inspecting all the available evidence.
However, the Board of Control for Cricket in India is not happy with Crowe's conduct.
"It's atrocious. How could the match referee decide on intervening in the matter on the basis of media reports," India team manager Bimal Soni told the Times of India.
"There was no word to the Indian team management and the next day the match referee said he found nothing wrong and that he had cleared Harbhajan. This is totally baseless.
"We have asked the BCCI to look into the matter and secretary Niranjan Shah has written to the ICC seeking an explanation."
Even Harbhajan was surprised by the media reports in Australia.
"If the media had its way, they would have not allowed me to even move my hands except when bowling. That the media back home also bought the story is what baffles me more," he said.
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