Mohammed Siraj has firmly cemented himself as the villain of the Indian side after giving Travis Head a massive send off in the second Test.

But according to former Australian captain Michael Clarke, there is another part of the quick’s game that needs to be addressed.

The right-arm seamer was in the thick of things in Adelaide after his heated exchange with Head saw both players facing sanctions from the ICC.

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However, some of Siraj’s appeals for wickets have left former players shaking their heads in disbelief, with the Indian firebrand celebrating instead of appealing.

“Siraj should be fined for keeping on appealing for lbws and not asking the umpire,” Clarke said on Sky Sports Radio’s Big Sports Breakfast.

“He hits the batter on the pads and just runs down like they’re out. I’m surprised the ICC haven’t fined him because I remember when I was playing, you get fined every time.

“I’m more worried about that from Siraj than him and Travis Head. You’re OK to appeal for anything you want, but you’ve got to turn around and ask the umpire.”

Clarke also said Siraj looked like a “fool” for giving Head a mouthful after the Aussie star scored a match-winning century on his home deck.

His display in the second Test also drew the ire of another former Aussie skipper in Mark Taylor, who was vocal about Siraj’s lack of respect for the umpires.

“I’d like to see someone have a little word to Mohammed Siraj,” he said on Willow Talk.

“I like his competitive nature. He’s a fine bowler. But I’d like someone to have a word with him because I don’t like the fact that when he hits a guy on the pads, and he thinks he’s got him out lbw, he continues to run down the pitch, past the batsman, almost gets to the keeper and then looks around to the umpire to see if he’s going to give it out.

“That’s got to stop, and if it doesn’t stop shortly, someone, and it’ll be the umpires or the match referee who might stop it for him, and give him a game off … we don’t want that.

“Someone like a Rohit Sharma or Virat Kohli needs to go up to him … [because] that is disrespecting the game and the umpire.”