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Cricket Click Gate

Fri Nov 06, 2026 6:46 pm

A Cricketer has been banned for 2 years for clicking his fingers and fooling the umpire into thinking the batsman hit the ball which was caught.
Now to me it’s a bit severe but you can guarantee cricketers are definitely going to think twice before cheating.
Should football look into dealing with cheaters on the pitch(diving,feigning injury like with heads come together and a player goes down like he’s been shot)
Now I’m not saying a 2 year ban but stricter punishment to erase cheating.

Re: Cricket Click Gate

Fri Nov 06, 2026 7:45 pm

I was out oce bowled. The wicketkeeper was so close, I was sure he touched the wicket with his foot

Re: Cricket Click Gate

Fri Nov 06, 2026 10:54 pm

theclaw wrote:A Cricketer has been banned for 2 years for clicking his fingers and fooling the umpire into thinking the batsman hit the ball which was caught.
Now to me it’s a bit severe but you can guarantee cricketers are definitely going to think twice before cheating.
Should football look into dealing with cheaters on the pitch(diving,feigning injury like with heads come together and a player goes down like he’s been shot)
Now I’m not saying a 2 year ban but stricter punishment to erase cheating.

Wasn’t this some time (more than a year) ago?? :?

Re: Cricket Click Gate

Sat Nov 07, 2026 7:44 am

Sven wrote:
theclaw wrote:A Cricketer has been banned for 2 years for clicking his fingers and fooling the umpire into thinking the batsman hit the ball which was caught.
Now to me it’s a bit severe but you can guarantee cricketers are definitely going to think twice before cheating.
Should football look into dealing with cheaters on the pitch(diving,feigning injury like with heads come together and a player goes down like he’s been shot)
Now I’m not saying a 2 year ban but stricter punishment to erase cheating.

Wasn’t this some time (more than a year) ago?? :?

Yesterday the punishment was given.

Re: Cricket Click Gate

Sun Nov 08, 2026 4:07 pm

theclaw wrote:
Sven wrote:
theclaw wrote:A Cricketer has been banned for 2 years for clicking his fingers and fooling the umpire into thinking the batsman hit the ball which was caught.
Now to me it’s a bit severe but you can guarantee cricketers are definitely going to think twice before cheating.
Should football look into dealing with cheaters on the pitch(diving,feigning injury like with heads come together and a player goes down like he’s been shot)
Now I’m not saying a 2 year ban but stricter punishment to erase cheating.

Wasn’t this some time (more than a year) ago?? :?

Yesterday the punishment was given.

Ah, right! :thumbup: :ayatollah:

Re: Cricket Click Gate

Sun Nov 08, 2026 5:44 pm

theclaw wrote:A Cricketer has been banned for 2 years for clicking his fingers and fooling the umpire into thinking the batsman hit the ball which was caught.
Now to me it’s a bit severe but you can guarantee cricketers are definitely going to think twice before cheating.
Should football look into dealing with cheaters on the pitch(diving,feigning injury like with heads come together and a player goes down like he’s been shot)
Now I’m not saying a 2 year ban but stricter punishment to erase cheating.


There's certainly not enough punishment (is there any?) for all of the rolling around & play acting. There needs to be something done retroactively to stop all the falling down trying to get players sent off by pretending to have a head injury or have been punched in the face whenever someone touches a hair on a players head or when they act like they've been shot until a player is booked & then they're miraculously up running around. It seems that some teams are taught to do that rather than act like actual footballers & they should be in panto.