AdvertisementSportCricketEngland Opinion The ‘spirit of cricket’ is hard to pin down, but Clicky Ponting’s trial by social media ain’t it Darren Kane Sports Columnist July 31, 2026 — 1:30pmJuly 31, 2026 — 1:30pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Except that the match was livestreamed (and archived) on the England and Wales Cricket Board’s Play Cricket platform. Nowhere across the Marylebone Cricket Club’s Laws of Cricket is this apparent conduct identified. The Preamble to the Laws of Cricket speaks directly of this “spirit” of cricket. Recreational cricket has acquired the evidentiary apparatus of a royal commission and the procedural protections of a group chat.