Time for us to behave - McGrath

If the umpire says 'in my opinion that wasn't out' then you get on with it Glenn McGrath

Aussie veteran Glenn McGrath believes the time has come for his colleagues to start behaving themselves following a spate of citings for bad behaviour.

He said: "It is up to the captain to talk to umpires and it should be left that way, and we just need to pull our heads in a little bit."

He spoke after a dissent charge against wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist.

Gilchrist was the third member of the national side to be charged for an offence in the past fortnight.

McGrath himself and pace bowler Brett Lee were the other two, the former charged with using obscene language and the latter dissent during Australia's third Test against South Africa in Sydney at the start of the year.

Gilchrist fell foul of officialdom after complaining when a run-out decision during Friday's one-day tri-series match against South Africa at the Brisbane Cricket Ground was not referred to the third umpire.

And Australian bowlers have been increasingly keen to ask umpires the reasons for their appeals being turned down in the past few months.

McGrath said the relationship between bowlers and umpires had to work two ways.

"If the umpire says 'in my opinion that wasn't out' then you get on with it.

"The umpire still needs to be approachable and you still have got to be able to talk to him."