Stephan Shemilt

Because...

As Harry Brooke discussed there then, England have now put a curfew in place.

Starting with this tour of Sri Lanka, players and staff have to be back in the hotel on the premises by midnight.

It might cause a problem if one of these day-nighters runs a bit late.

But everything that happened in Australia came with the knowledge of what happened to Brook in New Zealand.

So the trip to Noosa went ahead despite England knowing what happened in New Zealand.

Some of the other things that happened in Australia, other instances that we saw of the players out drinking happened with the knowledge of what Brook did in New Zealand.

So if that report from the Telegraph had never seen the light of day, would some of the things that Harry Brooke is talking about now, would they be in place?

Would Harry Brooke be making that apology?

Would there be a curfew in place?

Would other changes that may come in the England set up in the future, would they have happened as well?

I think it's interesting that Brook was the first person to speak about this.

Obviously, he's the white ball captain and he would have done media today anyway.

So he was in the situation whereby he was explaining his actions as well as telling us about, you know, who's playing in the first one day into international tomorrow.

A new fielding coach, why is that Crawley's opening the batting?

But as of yet, we haven't heard from Richard Gould, Rob Key or Brendan McCullum on what happened in New Zealand and why it was kept quiet for two months.

And they might explain that with sort of duties of confidentiality towards Harry Brooke.

It's an employment matter and all those sorts of things.

But if journalists hadn't uncovered that story, would we be even having this conversation right now?

Something that Agus and I spoke about at the end of the Ashes on the Ashes debrief on the iPlayer was a mantra that Brendan McCullum lives by as a coach and as a player.