It’s a viral scandal from the stereotypically genteel and gentle world of English village cricket.It has made headlines around the world, been decried by Piers Morgan and become the subject of some extraordinary internet sleuthing.Welcome to ‘Clicky Ponting’ or, if you are a fan of a slightly more niche reference, ‘Snapil Dev’ (references to former cricketers Ricky Ponting and Kapil Dev).It all stems from an amateur match played in the north of England, specifically the North Yorkshire and South Durham league’s Division Two game last Saturday between Saltburn Cricket Club Second XI and Norton Cricket Club.We join the action as Saltburn bowler Sam Morrison trundles in and sends down a delivery to Norton batter Noman Shabir. The ball appears to go past the edge of Shabir’s bat and into wicketkeeper Josh Bowes’ gloves.The fielders, though, have heard something: they think Shabir hit the ball, appeal to the umpire and he gives the batter out, caught behind.Shabir appears flabbergasted. His initial reaction is to point at the first-slip fielder, and then protests to the umpire, all to no avail. The Saltburn players celebrate as normal. They went on to win the game by 159 runs, cementing their position at the top of the Division Two table.And that’s where the sleuthing began.An amateur cricketer called Ben Mummery posted a clip on social media, zoomed in on the fielder standing at first slip — the nearest position behind the wicketkeeper and to his right. This clip appears to show this fielder clicking his fingers at the moment the ball goes past the edge of the bat, which could easily have made it sound like there had been contact between the two, thus tricking the umpire into giving Shabir out.The logical conclusion is that the fielder was clicking his fingers deliberately to try to deceive the umpire into thinking the batter had hit the ball when he hadn’t.