Ricky Ponting has admitted some of the verbal clashes between Australia and India did not look good.
Gautam Gambhir's elbow of Shane Watson on the first day earned him a one-match ban, which he is appealing, and was the first in a series of emotional exchanges.
The part-time spinner Simon Katich also argued heatedly with Gambhir.
The officials were also involved when Mitchell Johnson managed to irk the usually unflappable VVS Laxman.
"There was no real malice from anything Mitchell had to say," Ponting said. "It was about some of the comments that VVS had made in the newspapers, to tell the truth. That was all he was talking about. The umpires spoke to me and said it happened three times in the over, I think, and it wasn't acceptable. So I spoke to Mitchell at the break and that was it."
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