Brendon McCullum, left, and Harry Brook face six white-ball matches in Sri Lanka before the T20 World Cup, which begins on 7 February
On the eve of an England one-day international, Harry Brook explained his actions from the eve of England's previous one-day international.
The ripples of Brook's night out in Wellington, when he was "clocked" by a nightclub bouncer, washed up nearly 7,000 miles away in Colombo.
In between the white-ball tours of New Zealand and Sri Lanka came the horrific Ashes series - an all-timer of a shambles. Dropped catches, awful shots, scattergun bowling and an endless list of regrets.
Brook's misdemeanour occurred before England touched ground in Australia, but it typified the slapdash approach to regaining the urn.
