Mohammed Siraj has fired back at Travis Head, claiming the Australian star lied about their on-field altercation.

The pair were involved in a heated exchange on Saturday night when Head was dismissed by the Indian seamer after making 140 from 141 deliveries.

Siraj would celebrate and give Head an old-fashioned send-off, to which the Aussie hit back with a couple of expletives on his way to the pavilion.

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Speaking to media after the close of play, Head revealed he told Siraj, “Well bowled” after the ball that ended his innings before the subsequent reaction.

However, in an interview with Indian TV channel Star Sports, which translated from Hindi to English, it was a different series of events from Siraj’s perspective.

“My celebration after bowling him – I was just celebrating, but his abusive reaction can be seen on television,” he told the broadcaster.

“If you see, at the start I didn’t say a word – I was just celebrating only initially.

“Later, at the press conference, he said wrong things – he claimed he said ‘well bowled’ to me. But that’s a lie. There was no ‘well bowled’ that I could see. And he talked about respect. I mean, we respect everyone. We don’t disrespect.

“I always have respected people as cricket is a gentleman’s game. But what he did wasn’t right. I didn’t like it at all.”

At this stage, neither player is expected to face sanctions for the verbal stoush.

Siraj finished with figures of 4-98 in the second innings.

The pair met in the middle and exchanged some words on Sunday, but it was unclear what was said between the pair.