{"id":209918,"date":"2026-02-04T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/eng-coach-demands-privacy-for-brook-over-wellington-nightclub-incident\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T09:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:10:12","slug":"eng-coach-demands-privacy-for-brook-over-wellington-nightclub-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/eng-coach-demands-privacy-for-brook-over-wellington-nightclub-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"ENG coach demands privacy for Brook over Wellington nightclub incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

ENG coach demands privacy for Brook over Wellington nightclub incident<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/sports\/harry-brook-wellington-nightclub-incident-brendon-mccullum-hits-back-at-media-england-coach-demands-privacy-1770210431096<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-02-04 08:14:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.wionews.com<\/a><\/p>\n

England head coach Brendon McCullum has thrown his weight behind Harry Brook, while seeking privacy in his Wellington nightclub instance last year, for which the ECB had already reprimanded him and those involved in the ugly incident. After guiding England to a T20I series win over Sri Lanka, McCullum hits back at the media and also the ECB for releasing all of the findings of that instance every time something arises. Brook, who was at the centre of things during an altercation with a nightclub bouncer ahead of assuming ODI captaincy in New Zealand, was apparently punched in the face and later fined by the ECB for his involvement.<\/p>\n

Although this instance came to light just after England conceded the away Ashes this winter, (getting) reminded of it now and then, despite things being taken care of cleanly and under the wrap, upsets McCullum.<\/p>\n

Add WION as a Preferred Source<\/span><\/p>\n

“I don’t think we need to release all of those findings every time something arises in the media,” McCullum said of the Brook story, the Wellington nightclub instance. “Others will have their own opinions\u2026The process was done internally at the ECB, which we were all a part of. The boys were under no uncertain terms about how we felt about it, but now our job is to support them.<\/p>\n

“And, to be honest, I find it quite annoying that we keep going on and on about it, because these are young men who are under immense pressure and they’ve put their hand up for something they’ve been disciplined for, and piling onto them is not helpful for anyone,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

How Brook\u2019s lie was a blessing in disguise for others<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

Speaking in Brook\u2019s defence amid reports of him lying about going out alone that night in Wellington, McCullum reminded everyone of how it safeguarded other players, and that the criticism he (Brook) is facing is unfair. Brendon also appreciated his white-ball captain, calling him a strong leader and someone with a very good head on his shoulders.<\/p>\n

“I think he was quite keen to put his hand up when…<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ENG coach demands privacy for Brook over Wellington nightclub incident https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/sports\/harry-brook-wellington-nightclub-incident-brendon-mccullum-hits-back-at-media-england-coach-demands-privacy-1770210431096 Publish Date: 2026-02-04 08:14:00…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn1.wionews.com\/prod\/wion\/images\/2026\/20260204\/image-1770210680353.jpg?imwidth=1200&imheight=900","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209920,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209918\/revisions\/209920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}