Team wants complaint lodged against Crowe

MELBOURNE, March 6: The Indian cricket team management has urged the BCCI to take up the matter of match referee Jeff Crowe's investigation into the false media charge ��� of Harbhajan Singh making monkey gestures at the crowd during the tri-series finals in Sydney ��� with the International Cricket Council (ICC).
"It's atrocious. How could the match referee decide on intervening in the matter, that too on the basis of media reports.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 Harbahajan," said a fuming team manager Bimal Soni while departing from Melbourne.
"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 in the matter," added Soni.
Even Harbhajan was more than surprised. "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," said the player.
TOI has learnt that match referee Crowe even objected to Harbhajan wearing a red skin (inner wear) to keep himself warm.
"He cannot wear white for sure but now the referee insists that he wear blue," a source said just ahead of the second final in Brisbane.