Indian middle-order batsman Rohit Sharma was fined 10 percent of his match fee by match referee Jeff Crowe for showing dissent at the umpire's decision at the Gabba on Tuesday.

Rohit was adjudged caught behind, second ball, by Rudi Koertzen off Muttiah Muralitharan even though the ball hadn't touched his bat on its way to the wicket-keeper.

The 20-year-old lingered on at the crease well after the finger had gone up and kept shaking his head for most part of his walk back to the pavilion in an obvious show of both disappointment and dissent, though he had perfect justification for feeling thus.

New Zealander Crowe said dissent had been discussed in detail at a pre-series meeting with all three teams, and found Rohit guilty of breaching Clause 1.3 of the ICC Code of Conduct, which talks about 'excessive, obvious disappointment with an umpire's decision, an obvious delay in resuming play or leaving the wicket, shaking the head' among other things. Rohit was guilty on all counts, though the fact that Koertzen had got his decision-making all messed up and that it was the Mumbaikar's first offence might have influenced Crowe into handing out the lightest sentence possible.