Devine, suspended by his club,, external You must have a proper hearing and tell your side of the story. People have come to conclusions very quickly and maybe they are right, but until proper research has been done it is difficult to make a judgement.

For me, the goalie, Josh Bowes, is the person who will ultimately know what happened. Unless Devine confesses something, the bouncer is the star witness for the prosecution and defense. It’s up to him to be honest.

Considering all of us are coming to judgment from some pretty grainy video, if Devine actually manages to snap his fingers so loudly that the referee can hear it outside, with everything else going on, then he clearly needs to be punished.

Anyone caught cheating in any sport runs that risk. They risk being exposed as cheaters and will be punished as cheaters.

Then there is the decision to be made about the team itself and whether other people knew it and were part of it.

But that can only happen after there has been a proper hearing and a proper process.

Let’s be frank though, these things happen in cricket – people are always pushing to try and get an advantage. The only sport I know of where this doesn’t happen, and I would happily be corrected here, is golf, due to its self-control nature.

Any time you have a referee or umpire to try to rip you off as a player, this kind of thing happens.

In my playing days, I remember being at first slip in a county match when West Indies fast bowler Andy Roberts was playing for us. [Leicestershire].

The goalkeeper at the time, who I will not name, ran on the spot very loudly distracting the player as he ran. After doing it a couple of times, the batsman turned around and told him in no uncertain terms that if he did it again, he would do something quite awkward with his cricket bat.

We’ve had ball-tampering scandals – all of these things – and they all fall under the same umbrella of foul play and discrediting the game.

What I would say is that the whole Spirit of Cricket question is an incredibly difficult path to walk. These things happen and everyone has different points of view.

It starts when everyone has a different perspective or interpretation of the Spirit of Cricket and very few people agree on that. Then start from there. It is extraordinarily difficult to achieve consensus on these things.

But this continues everywhere, all over the world. I know it’s been a big story in Australia too, but I’ve played grade cricket in Australia and I think I’ve got quite a bit of experience knowing how Australians play grade cricket.

Their cricket league is absolutely uncompromising, it is ruthless and I have certainly seen evidence of sharp practice in the two or three seasons I played there.

It is not the first incident nor will it be the last. The important thing now is that we conduct a full and fair investigation.

Jonathan Agnew was speaking to BBC Sport’s Marc Higginson