Harry Brook has admitted different England gamers had been current when he was “clocked” by a bouncer outdoors a New Zealand nightclub.
The England white-ball skipper had initially mentioned he was out on his personal in Wellington on 1 November, the night earlier than a one-day worldwide.
However in an announcement launched on Friday, the Yorkshireman conceded others had been with him and he lied to guard them “from being drawn right into a state of affairs”.
The assertion got here after the Every day Telegraph reported, exterior that Brook and two of his team-mates, Jacob Bethell and Josh Tongue, could possibly be topic to an investigation from the cricket regulator.
“I settle for accountability for my actions in Wellington and acknowledge others had been current that night,” mentioned Brook.
“I remorse my earlier feedback and my intention was to guard my team-mates from being drawn right into a state of affairs that arose on account of my very own selections.
“I’ve apologised and can proceed to replicate on the matter. This has been a difficult interval in my profession, however one from which I’m studying.
“I recognise I’ve extra to be taught concerning the off-field duties that include management and captaincy. I stay dedicated to growing on this space and to bettering each personally and professionally.”
Brook was positioned in command of England’s white-ball groups final summer season and the tour of New Zealand was his first abroad as captain.
The 26-year-old was concerned within the altercation the night time earlier than the third one-day worldwide in Wellington on 1 November – a sport England misplaced.
He was fined and given a ultimate warning over his conduct, although the incident and punishment solely got here to gentle greater than two months later after the ultimate Check towards Australia in Sydney, on the finish of a dismal sequence England misplaced 4-1.
In an interview with BBC Sport final week, Brook mentioned he did not need to “go into any particulars” of the Wellington incident, however mentioned it started with some gamers “going out for meals”.
“There was no intention of going out, no intention of placing ourselves in a tough state of affairs,” he mentioned.
“I took it upon myself to exit for a number of extra and I used to be by myself there. I should not have been there.
“I used to be making an attempt to get right into a membership and the bouncer simply clocked me, sadly. I would not say I used to be completely leathered. I would had one too many drinks.”
The Telegraph report that the cricket regulator are getting ready a report after receiving paperwork on Brook, Bethell and Tongue from the England and Wales Cricket Board final week.
The physique, set-up in 2023 and headed-up by Chris Haward, a former chief constable of Lincolnshire police, has freedom to function because it sees match. It is ready to positive or droop gamers for disciplinary offences.
Brook’s assertion is the newest act in a sequence of incidents involving consuming that dogged the England workforce by the New Zealand tour, the Ashes sequence that adopted and its aftermath.
The consuming that occurred on a mid-tour vacation in Noosa was notably scrutinised, and Brook was one of many gamers pictured within the Queensland resort’s bars.
