{"id":579366,"date":"2026-04-01T21:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T21:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/579366\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T21:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T21:48:09","slug":"englands-harry-brook-and-jacob-bethell-let-off-with-warning-over-new-zealand-nightclub-altercation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/579366\/","title":{"rendered":"England&#8217;s Harry Brook and Jacob Bethell let off with warning over New Zealand nightclub altercation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">England white-ball captain Harry Brook and all-rounder Jacob Bethell have escaped with a warning following an investigation into an altercation with a nightclub bouncer in \u200cNew Zealand late \u2060last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Brook, who had initially \u200csaid he was alone \u200cin the altercation in Wellington after being denied entry into a nightclub, <a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-01-31\/brook-says-he-lied-to-protect-england-teammates-in-nz-incident\/106291544\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/106291544\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">admitted in \u200cJanuary he lied to protect his \u2060teammates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The incident, in which Brook was struck by the bouncer, occurred the night before an ODI on November 1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-01-31\/brook-says-he-lied-to-protect-england-teammates-in-nz-incident\/106291544\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brook admits to lying over nightclub incident<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">England&#8217;s ODI and T20 captain Harry Brook issues a statement admitting he lied over the nightclub incident on his side&#8217;s tour of New Zealand last year, saying other teammates were present when he was hit by a bouncer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">An investigation was launched by the Cricket Regulator, an independent body responsible for &#8220;monitoring compliance with the game&#8217;s regulations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Cricket Regulator said \u200cBrook and Bethell \u200caccepted they breached the professional conduct \u200cregulations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;As a consequence of those investigations, the Regulator has issued a caution notice to Harry Brook and Jacob Bethell in relation to their conduct during that night,&#8221; a Cricket Regulator statement read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">England fast bowler Josh \u2060Tongue was also present during the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;No further action is to be taken by \u2060the Regulator in relation to Josh \u200cTongue,&#8221; \u200cthe Cricket Regulator said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Tongue was not in the England squad for the ODI against New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">But he had been training with the squad ahead of the Ashes, which England lost 4-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Reuters\/ABC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England white-ball captain Harry Brook and all-rounder Jacob Bethell have escaped with a warning following an investigation into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[13285,64,63,284062,740,1208,36396,38709,1736,63082,223149,85,245],"class_list":["post-579366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-ashes","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bouncer","tag-cricket","tag-england","tag-harry-brook","tag-jacob-bethell","tag-new-zealand","tag-nightclub","tag-reprimand","tag-sports","tag-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579366","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=579366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}