BCCI not to take up Hayden issue to ICC

Cricket Australia has taken up the matter with Hayden. He was found guilty of breaching the code of conduct, Shetty said.

“The Indian board has nothing to do with it as it is an internal matter of Cricket Australia,” he said.

Asked if Harbhajan would be asked to ‘cool down’, he said “we have advised all cricketers to behave properly. The captain will see to it that there is no untoward behaviour.

“Our players are well behaved. They are more focussed on cricket,” he said.

On whether during the IPL matches, Australian players like Hayden and Andrew Symonds, who had a brush with Harbhajan in the Sydney Test, could expect rough treatment from the crowd, he said the Indian fans, barring some incidents, has never been hostile.

The crowd behaviour at Mumbai last year against Symonds was an “isolated incident,” he said. MORE PTI UD BN YS YS 02281811 DEL SPORT-HAYDEN-SHETTY 2LST Asked if future of Test matches was at stake with Twenty20 cricket becoming popular, Shetty said the Ashes, Australia-India and India-Pakistan Test series were drawing the crowds and the standard of cricket had gone up, especially in fielding, due to one-day and T-20 matches.

“T20 is a new format. Every format of the game has its own space,” he said.