{"id":830642,"date":"2026-07-29T05:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T05:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/830642\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T05:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T05:59:11","slug":"cricket-cheating-scandal-clicky-ponting-brian-devine-in-the-eye-of-storm-indian-restaurant-removes-his-sponsorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/830642\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket cheating scandal: \u2018Clicky Ponting\u2019 Brian Devine in the eye of storm; Indian restaurant removes his sponsorship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brian Devine is understood to be the player to have wreaked havoc not just in English cricket but also in international cricket \u2014 in a manner of speaking.<\/p>\n

\"BrianBrian Devine has now lost his sponsor, an Indian restaurant by the name of Spices. (X)<\/p>\n

The 38-year-old has taken cheating in sports to the next level. Hold your breath, what he does is this: he is often in the slips, and just as the ball is about to pass the bat, he makes a clicking sound with his fingers to confuse the umpire. An appeal involving many fielders ensues, and the befuddled umpire has no option but to give out. Of course, there are no reviews available in the cricket league.<\/p>\n

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There is enough data to support the claims that something is fishy. Devine, who plays for Saltburn in a league in the North of England, has taken maximum catches, far more than the fielder in second place. Saltburn are siting pretty at the top to boot. Going by Devine\u2019s profile bio on X, one can make out that he is a hustler and will do whatever it takes to finish the job at hand. \u201cThey say Rome wasn\u2019t built in a day, but I wasn\u2019t on that particular job,\u201d it reads.<\/p>\n

After the scandal broke through, fans are livid. Many more new videos have since come out, supporting the cheating claims. Devine, who works at an auction house, has now been dubbed \u201cClicky Ponting\u201d. It\u2019s a funny take on the name of former Australia captain, Ricky Ponting.<\/p>\n

Devine in the soup<\/p>\n

Anyway, an investigation has been launched. If truth be told, Devine appears to be in trouble having already been dropped by his sponsor, a local Indian restaurant named \u201cSpices.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom all the evidence, he\u2019s done it to all the clubs in pretty much every game. Interestingly, when he got found out, and the clicking stopped, the wickets also stopped for a long time,\u201d a rival player wrote according to the Sun.<\/p>\n

Another rival player weighed in: \u201cIt\u2019s clear what\u2019s been happening, and it\u2019s not confined to one game. I was at the other end when one of our players was dismissed, but our batsman was adamant he was nowhere near the ball. We had three given out caught behind that day, and all of them said they hadn\u2019t touched the ball.\u201d<\/p>\n

Renowned TV host Piers Morgan, a cricket enthusiast, couldn\u2019t help but comment on X and expressed his surprise: \u201cUnbelievable. Clicky Ponting must be the biggest cheat in cricket history,\u201d he wrote. Craig Symington, who shared the cheating video, was furious. \u201cWe play this game on integrity and trust. Please share this far and wide to sort this rubbish out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here is the video shared by another user.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brian Devine is understood to be the player to have wreaked havoc not just in English cricket but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,403669,63,403667,403668,740,95509,22255,85],"class_list":["post-830642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-auction-house","tag-australia","tag-brian-devine","tag-cheating-in-sports","tag-cricket","tag-english-cricket","tag-international-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}