{"id":359153,"date":"2026-04-01T21:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T21:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/359153\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T21:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T21:05:09","slug":"englands-harry-brook-and-jacob-bethell-reprimanded-over-conduct-on-tour-of-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/359153\/","title":{"rendered":"Englands Harry Brook and Jacob Bethell reprimanded over conduct on tour of New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brook was fined and given a final warning<\/a> over his conduct following the incident. But that only came to light more than two months later, after the final Test against Australia in Sydney. <\/p>\n

In January, 27-year-old Brook said supporters have “every right to be annoyed” with his behaviour as he issued a public apology.<\/p>\n

But he also stated he was on his own when the bouncer “clocked ” him and only later admitted other players had been present. He explained he had lied about that because he had been trying to protect his team-mates from further scrutiny.<\/p>\n

It also emerged the Cricket Regulator was looking into the matter.<\/p>\n

England’s players were widely criticised for their off-field behaviour during the Ashes, including claims of excessive drinking during a mid-series break in the coastal resort of Noosa.<\/p>\n

Tongue, 28, told BBC Sport earlier this week he had learned from what had happened in the New Zealand capital and is “just trying to focus on the cricket now”. <\/p>\n

During a meeting at Lord’s to discuss the findings of a review of the tour last week, England’s managing director Rob Key said there is not an “easy fix” to cricket’s relationship with alcohol. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brook was fined and given a final warning over his conduct following the incident. But that only came…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-359153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}