An amateur cricket club at the centre of a cheating scandal has forfeited its match scheduled for tonight, as the fallout from the row continues to escalate. The controversy centres on a player dubbed "Clicky Ponting", who is reported to have been "knocked sideways" by the scale of the global outrage the incident has generated, prompting the club to withdraw from the fixture rather than take part while the storm continues.

The club had already been dumped from its cup competition over the affair, and the latest forfeit marks a further consequence for the side as the story continues to draw international attention. The Daily Mail piece is a follow-up to its original report on the cheating row, noting the episode has since drawn comparisons with other infamous instances of club cricket skulduggery, from vaseline and elastic bands to fattening up umpires.