What first looked like a shocking umpiring mistake has exploded into what many are calling one of amateur cricket’s most brazen cheating scandals after viral footage appeared to show a fielder faking the sound of an edge with a finger click. But the biggest twist came after fans began digging through old match videos, uncovering clip after clip that suggests the same trick may have been used for more than an entire season. Was this one isolated incident… or part of a much bigger pattern hiding in plain sight?
Tourists swarmed on to Saltburn-by-the-Sea’s pier yesterday, guzzling fish, chips and Mr Whippy ice-creams, but a few hundred yards inland, another great Victorian landmark was eerily quiet. The seaside town’s historic cricket ground, with its white picket fence and neatly mown outfield, stood empty. Not a single holidaying schoolchild was using its well-tended nets or … Read more