England’s off-field conduct has come under heavy scrutiny during this Ashes series.
Coach Brendon McCullum had removed the England players’ midnight curfew, which had been in place since the 2017-18 tour of Australia.
That curfew came into force after England wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow was accused of headbutting Australia batsman Cameron Bancroft in a Perth bar.
In announcing a review into this winter’s tour, ECB chief executive Richard Gould said “behaviour” will be analysed.
“It doesn’t surprise me,” former England captain Michael Vaughan told BBC Sport.
“For it to have broken on the back of losing 4 -1 in Australia, on the back of what happened in Noosa, on the looseness of the players on the pitch in terms of their discipline with some of their strokes, it kind of tells you that whole culture around the team, the group and the ECB needs to change.”
England took the four-night break in Noosa between the second and third Tests. Including two preceding nights in Brisbane, some players spent as many as six successive days drinking. Brook was one of the players photographed in a Noosa bar.
Also in Noosa, opening batter Ben Duckett was filmed by a member of the public apparently drunk, with the video later appearing on social media.
Vaughan, who captained England to victory in the 2005 Ashes, added: “The Noosa trip was fine for me, but the Noosa trip on the back of now what we now know what went on in New Zealand, you have to point the finger at the leadership group of the ECB.
“The highest level of management of the ECB need to look at themselves in the mirror because they were clearly trying to brush that under the carpet because the Ashes were coming up.”
Brook was made England’s Test vice-captain before the Ashes series, replacing Ollie Pope.
“They’ve tried to protect their white-ball captain, which in a funny way I get because the Ashes were coming up,” said Vaughan.
“Fundamentally, when the captain of England has a disciplinary issue, you have got to deal with it there and then.
“I have been around the block for many years and it generally always comes out. You might as well deal with it as soon as it happens. They haven’t and now we are talking about an issue that was two months ago. The professionalism and attention to detail has been lacking.”
