Former England player Michael Vaughan has questioned the cricket board’s handling of Harry Brook’s controversial involvement in a late-night confrontation with a nightclub bouncer during England’s tour of New Zealand, where they lost 3-0.
Brook should have been punished for that game, according to Vaughan, who also stressed that such problems should be dealt with right away rather than being ignored and allowed to worsen over time.
“The ECB ignored it. They say they poured the kitchen sink in with a fine, but the loose nature of the preparation has been a significant question mark over the team coming out just a couple of days ago on the back of a terrible Ashes series when performance levels have been mediocre’, Vaughan told Fox Cricket.
“My experience with these kinds of incidents is that you have to be spot on at the moment it occurs because when it comes out later, people ask, ‘Why did they brush it under the carpet’?” The England captain was able to go out the previous evening, get into a fight with a bouncer, and then play the next day, most likely. That isn’t possible. He ought to have received a suspension for the match. After that, you handle it there and there,” he continued.
Additionally, Vaughan denied rumours that the incident was concealed in order to prevent the Ashes, which came after the New Zealand trip, from being derailed. Although issues are unavoidable, he pointed out that trying to conceal them in order to safeguard Ashes’ preparations simply backfired because the problem reappeared and threw off the team’s routine throughout the series.
“I didn’t have any issues with Noosa, but I do have an issue with them since they concealed something in New Zealand from us. Therefore, it is obvious that there are many discussions to be made and that there is a need to understand right from wrong. “I often ask myself, ‘What don’t we know?'” when I see or hear stuff like that,” Vaughan remarked.
“I believe there will be a lot of discussions about the leadership group over the next week or two, and that goes straight to the highest level because the CEO and the ECB chairman would have been aware of that.” “You could argue that it did derail the Ashes because it wasn’t resolved right away and players had this loose nature for a good few weeks,” he continued. “I understand your point about trying to hide it from the Ashes because you don’t want it to derail you.”
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