The 'Clicky Ponting' scandal reported by India Today
India Today's sports section published a piece titled "The 'Clicky Ponting' scandal that has left the cricket world stunned" on 2026-07-29T05:19:23.0000000Z. The online item is accompanied by an embedded image and is hosted on the outlet's sports vertical.
The item appears on the India Today website under its sports stream and is available at the URL provided by the publisher. The article's web address includes the segments "brian-devine-finger-clicking-club-cricket-cheating" as part of its slug. The HTML around the published piece shows an image element with several attributes attached to the visual asset.
Within the article's markup the image is referenced with an src string that contains "brian-devine-291858198-16x9_0.png?VersionId=yvzjEDHrwE4TZ.lfXzm_yWwCCpkpnjRw". The image tag in the published snippet carries alignment and spacing attributes listed as align="left" and hspace="2". Size parameters in that same tag are recorded as height="180" and width="305" in the copy of the HTML captured with the story.
The headline used by India Today repeats the phrase "The 'Clicky Ponting' scandal that has left the cricket world stunned" within the page content as rendered in the archived snippet. That headline framing appears prominently above the embedded image in the version of the article that was published on the timestamp noted earlier. The presentation in the sports vertical pairs the headline and image as the lead elements of the web item.
Metadata attached to the published article identifies the sports desk as the originating section and lists the publication timestamp exactly as 2026-07-29T05:19:23.0000000Z. The captured HTML excerpt includes the title twice within the visible page snippet and reproduces the image reference alongside the repeated headline. The slug embedded in the URL and the file name used for the image are part of the online record for the piece.
Readers seeking the full reporting and any additional detail should consult the India Today sports page where the item was posted on 2026-07-29. The published web page, its headline and the associated image file are all preserved in the online version of the story.
