India team manager fined after umpire complaint

UPDATE: The International Cricket Council has fined India manager Vinod Phadke 40 per cent of his match fee after he was found of breaching Article 2.1.3 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel.

Phadke was charged with the "Public criticism of, or inappropriate comment in relation to an incident occurring in an International Match or any Player, Player Support Personnel, Match official or team participating in any International Match”.

The charge was made in relation to comments made by Phadke (below) following India's loss in the first one-day international against South Africa on Sunday.

"Mr Phadke pleaded not guilty to the charge and, as such, Mr Chris Broad of the Elite Panel of ICC Match Referees conducted a formal hearing after the match," an ICC statement said.

India had reportedly complained about the officiating of Vineet Kulkarni, citing what what they perceived to be below-par performances during Sunday’s opening ODI and the first T20 against the same opposition.

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In both matches, tight lbw decisions went against the home side, with Kulkarni, who is also Indian, the man in the hot seat.

India, who have regularly opposed the use of DRS for bilateral series, believes South African batsman JP Duminy could have been declared out twice in the opening T20I at Dharmasala before he went on to help his side chase down 199 in the final over.

This was followed by a decision that again went against them when Faf du Plessis was ruled not out lbw in the first ODI to the first ball he faced from Ravichandran Ashwin.

The home side was again aggrieved when opener Shikhar Dhawan was given out lbw to a Morne Morkel delivery they believed was going down the leg-side.

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Duminy was on five when Kulkarni adjudged him not out from the bowling of Axar Patel, before he survived another close call on 33.

He went on to lead South Africa to a win with an unbeaten half-century.

"We did not have quite a few decisions going our way and sometimes these can change the match," Dhoni said after the first T20.

"It could have been different if we could have got Duminy out early."

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Indian team manager Vinod Phadke also confirmed the team wasn't happy with the decision-making and revealed he was going to mention this in his report.

"I have not seen the captain's report, but I am going to mention him in my report," Phadke told ESPNcricinfo.

"It is obvious to everybody that the umpiring has not been good."

Kulkarni, who has in 18 ODIs and seven T20Is, will be one of the two on-field umpires for the second ODI, before the umpire rotation policy sees new officials come in for the remainder of the series. 

Following the report of the complaint, the ICC's media department tweeted that Phadke had in fact been charged with inappropriate comments, and would face a hearing following the second ODI.

Cricket.com.au can confirm that those charges do indeed relate to Phadke's comments regarding Kulkarni, with the team manager having breached ICC code 2.1.3, which relates to showing dissent at an umpire's decision.