{"id":653158,"date":"2026-11-06T20:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T20:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/653158\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T20:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T20:04:10","slug":"clicky-ponting-brian-devine-banned-for-two-years-over-cricket-cheating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/653158\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Clicky Ponting\u2019 Brian Devine banned for two years over cricket cheating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vceRuCEEWmUOvGhtp\" style=\"display:none\">Devine has now been suspended from playing, coaching, umpiring, scoring and managing junior teams at all levels until September 29, 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vceRuCEEWmUOvGhtp\" style=\"display:none\">Saltburn\u2019s second XI have been relegated, handed a 60-point deduction for the 2027 season and fined \u00a3300 ($723).<\/p>\n<p class=\"vceRuCEEWmUOvGhtp\" style=\"display:none\">Devine and Saltburn admitted the charges but the club appealed against their sanction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vceRuCEEWmUOvGhtp\" style=\"display:none\">Saltburn said in a statement reported on gazettelive.co.uk: \u201cThe club fully participated in the disciplinary proceedings and accept the decision of the appeal following the original decision from the league.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vceRuCEEWmUOvGhtp\" style=\"display:none\">In a statement to the Press Association, the league said: \u201cThe league recognises the strain this has placed on many people, especially those who were abused online and in person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vceRuCEEWmUOvGhtp\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe ask everyone to respect that the formal process is now complete. The league will make no further comment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Devine has now been suspended from playing, coaching, umpiring, scoring and managing junior teams at all levels until&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,7125,26977,1558,5159,55902,283517,16558,66405,16551,3372,2082,1437,42,23785,1362,111,139,69,1523,283518,4374,9644,213,7187,1361,1237,1530],"class_list":["post-653158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-amateur","tag-banned","tag-been","tag-brian","tag-cheating","tag-clicky","tag-cricket","tag-cricketer","tag-devine","tag-dubbed","tag-for","tag-global","tag-headlines","tag-heavily","tag-made","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-ponting","tag-punished","tag-scandal","tag-sports","tag-team","tag-that","tag-two","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}