England fast bowler Josh Tongue says he has “learned” from the New Zealand nightclub episode in which team-mate Harry Brook was punched by a bouncer.
Tongue was on a night out with England limited-overs skipper Brook and all-rounder Jacob Bethell in Wellington on 1 November, the evening before a one-day international, when the incident occurred.
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Brook was fined and given a final warning over his conduct, though the matter only came to light more than two months after it happened and following the final Test of a dismal Ashes series which England lost 4-1.
Unlike Brook and Bethell, Tongue was not in England’s squad for the ODI against the Kiwis but had been training with the group to build up his bowling workload…