{"id":402281,"date":"2026-01-09T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/402281\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T16:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T16:00:07","slug":"matt-prior-calls-for-drinking-culture-conversation-in-english-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/402281\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Prior calls for ‘drinking culture’ conversation in English cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Telegraph broke the story about Brook, external<\/a> shortly after England lost the final Test in Sydney by five wickets.<\/p>\n

Prior said it was “kind of ridiculous” that England players would go out the night before a game.<\/p>\n

“If that was an England footballer, there would be hell to pay,” he said.<\/p>\n

“There just would be. There’s just no doubt about it.”<\/p>\n

The ECB had earlier released a statement from chief executive Richard Gould, in which he said a review of the tour, including the behaviour of the players, would be taking place.<\/p>\n

Coach Brendon McCullum had removed the England players’ midnight curfew, which had been in place since the 2017-18 tour of Australia.<\/p>\n

That curfew came into force after England wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow was accused of headbutting Australia batter Cameron Bancroft in a Perth bar.<\/p>\n

“It’s not just a Harry Brook thing, it’s a culture thing. For me it’s about what is the expectation on those players in that dressing room? What is it to be an England cricketer?” Prior said.<\/p>\n

“In our dressing room we wanted to humanise the team, be the hardest-working cricket team in the world, be highly skilled, but also be human. <\/p>\n

“This current England group, whether it be white ball or red ball, what is their culture? <\/p>\n

“What does it mean to play cricket for England?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Telegraph broke the story about Brook, external shortly after England lost the final Test in Sydney by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-402281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}