"We have requested the ICC to send the matter for arbitration," president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Ranbir Mahendra told this news agency on Sunday, saying the board had written to the ICC.

Ganguly was penalised for his team's slow over rate in two successive games during a 4-2 defeat in a one-day series at home against Pakistan in April.

An appeal by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) against ICC match referee Chris Broad's decision was quashed by appeals commissioner Michael Beloff.

Although ICC rules say the decision is binding, Mahendra said the board had contested some of the rules as well as the procedures adopted by Beloff.

Ganguly was banned after his team exceeded the allotted time for completing the overs by almost 30 minutes in two consecutive matches. Ganguly was fined for the first offence and given the ban in the next game, the fourth in the series.

The Indian board asked Ganguly, struggling to score runs, to sit out the last two games despite being eligible to play, pending the appeal. The ICC ruled the ban would start retroactively with Ganguly needing to miss four more games, ruling him out of an upcoming one-day tri-series in Sri Lanka starting on July 30.

Last November, Ganguly was given a two-Test ban for his team's slow over rate during a one-day defeat against Pakistan in Kolkata but successfully appealed against the decision.