Siraj gave Australia's century maker Head a heated send-off on Saturday in the second Test in Adelaide and could face sanction from the International Cricket Council.
Head expressed disappointment in the Indian fast bowler after copping a verbal spray from Siraj, who also gestured towards the dressing room after bowling the Australian batsman for 140.
Head responded with some choice words of his own with the flashpoint certain to be scrutinised by the Adelaide Test's match referee Ranjan Madugalle.
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"I would like a better reaction (from Siraj). I was surprised at the reaction in terms of the situation of the game," Head told reporters after play.
"I felt it was probably, yeah, a little bit far at the time.
"And that is why I am disappointed in the reaction that I gave back, but I am also going to stand up for myself.
"I'd like to think in our team that we wouldn't do that. It's not how I would like to play the game, and I feel like my teammates are the same."
Former Australia captain Mark Taylor called for India's senior core to caution Siraj.
"I'd like to see someone have a little word to Mohammed Siraj," Taylor told the Willow Talk podcast.
"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 will 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 and say: 'Mate, yeah, be excited, be aggressive, get in batsmen's face, love all that, but that is disrespecting the game and the umpire'."
After the incident, Siraj was loudly and repeatedly booed by the crowd in Head's home town.
Mohammed Siraj smiles in response to the loud jeers of the Adelaide Oval crowd. (Dave Hunt/AAP PHOTOS)
Ex-India captain Sunil Gavasker said he could understand the crowd's reaction, describing Siraj's send-off as "unnecessary".
"The man (Head) has got 140, he hasn't got out for one or two," Gavasker told Star Sports.
"You don't give a send-off to someone who has batted brilliantly and won the crowd over.
"Instead of becoming a hero for dismissing him, Siraj has become the villain.
""If Siraj had simply applauded Head after that dismissal, he would have been a hero for everyone in the stadium.
"Instead he got the stick from the crowd - and understandably so."
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