HOBART, Australia (Reuters)
New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming has described the tour match between South Africa and India at Centurion as "bizarre".

The match, the third and last of the series, was stripped of its Test status by the International Cricket Council after their appointed match referee Mike Denness was sacked.

"If I got a hundred I'd be pretty disappointed. It did go through my mind that they don't register as (Test match) centuries," said Fleming, who has made 31 half-centuries and only two hundreds in 62 Tests.

"It's just a bizarre affair."

Fleming and Australia captain Steve Waugh said the way the ICC administered the game was beyond their control.

Both captains said their main role was limited to what they could control - playing attacking and entertaining cricket.

"I think that's all as ambassadors of the game we can do. You can only control what you're looking after and this series [against Australia] is our main concern," Fleming said.

"There's not really a lot of other influence we can have on world cricket but it is frustrating and you've got to say ... that we are concerned."

© Wisden CricInfo Ltd