England's Harry Brook back to belligerent best after tough winter - and celebrates 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin-style

Harry Brook's winter has been dogged by unwanted headlines.

First, there was his raft of injudicious shots during the Ashes series defeat with former England seamer Stuart Broad lamenting the batter's lack of game awareness after one particularly brainless dismissal to Mitchell Starc in the day-nighter at Brisbane.

Brook averaged a shade under 40 against Australia, with his two half-centuries including a top score of 84, but those numbers could, and should, have been higher.

Then, on the final day of the Ashes, shortly after England's 4-1 loss had been sealed, news emerged that Brook had been fined and warned about his conduct by the ECB after a clash with a nightclub bouncer the evening before an ODI in New Zealand in November.