COLOMBO, Jan 31 – England white-ball captain Harry Brook said on Friday he lied that he was alone in an altercation with a nightclub bouncer in New Zealand late last year to protect his teammates and that he is learning from that incident.<\/p>\n
A Daily Telegraph report on January 8 said Brook was struck by a nightclub bouncer after being denied entry to the venue on October 31. England were playing in New Zealand at the time. <\/p>\n
The 26-year-old subsequently apologised for his behaviour, which he felt “brought embarrassment” to him and his team.<\/p>\n
In a statement issued on Friday, Brook acknowledged he was not the only English player at the scene.<\/p>\n
“I accept responsibility for my actions in Wellington and acknowledge that others were present that evening,” said the 26-year-old, who is currently leading England in a Twenty20 series in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n
“I regret my previous comments and my intention was to protect my teammates from being drawn into a situation that arose as a result of my own decisions.<\/p>\n
“I have apologised and will continue to reflect on the matter. This has been a challenging period in my career, but one from which I am learning.<\/p>\n
“I recognise that I have more to learn regarding the off-field responsibilities that come with leadership and captaincy.”<\/p>\n
Brook led England to victory in the one-day series in Sri Lanka and they are 1-0 ahead in the subsequent T20 series against their hosts.<\/p>\n
Brook and his team will begin their T20 World Cup campaign against Nepal in Mumbai on February 8. REUTERS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLOMBO, Jan 31 – England white-ball captain Harry Brook said on Friday he lied that he was alone…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-266717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}