in an altercation with a bouncer<\/a> outside a nightclub in \u00adWellington, New Zealand, on the night before an ODI last November, and then compounded that embarrassment by lying about it to the media. Both he and Jacob Bethell, who was also present, were reprimanded by the Cricket Regulator. Brook, as Test vice-captain, now stands to be \u00adpromoted at least temporarily should Stokes be dropped.<\/p>\nThen the Test side went on a mini-break in the Australian coastal resort of Noosa between the first two Ashes Tests, during which videos of \u00adinebriated players circulated widely on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf it\u2019s true that it became a stag do and people are out drinking all the time excessively, that\u2019s not acceptable,\u201d said Rob Key, England\u2019s managing director of men\u2019s cricket. \u201cI don\u2019t agree with a drinking culture. I don\u2019t like a drinking culture.\u201d A review into that incident led to the introduction of a midnight curfew for players while they are on tour.<\/p>\n
Team management have attempted to brand this summer as a reset on the pitch \u2013 as a reaction to the 4-1 defeat in the Ashes \u2013 and off it, with the men\u2019s coach, Brendon McCullum, promising to \u201cuse a firm grip\u201d to deal with perceived issues with alcohol within the group.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom a cultural point of view and a discipline point of view, we need to make sure we\u2019re operating in the manner that we want to and what\u2019s expected of us,\u201d McCullum said at the end of last month. \u201cPlaying professional sport is a great career and it\u2019s great fun, but ultimately you\u2019re representing your country and you\u2019ve got some responsibilities and obligations to carry yourself in the right way. So [my job] is to ensure that remains strong and continues to improve.\u201d<\/p>\n
Saracens said in a statement: \u201cWe are aware of an incident involving an academy player connected to Saracens on Sunday evening. The club is currently establishing the full facts and is in contact with the relevant authorities and individuals involved. Once this process is complete, the matter will be reviewed and addressed appropriately.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Stokes\u2019 future as England Test captain has been thrown into doubt after the England and Wales Cricket…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-723693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723693","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=723693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}