Former England Cricketer Graeme Swann, recently in an interview with ESPN cricinfo spoke in detail about his career as a cricketer, coach, and how the England team would have fared against the Bazball side. He further recognized that he was very fortunate to be in a distinguished England team that would and still beat any of the other England’s teams. However, even after boasting a CV that features three team victories, Swann is regretful of one thing.
Still dreaming about cricket
The regret which he is still full of relates to his cricket aspirations. He remarked “I wish I got a hundred, that’s something that really annoys me. I look back now and think, ‘Why didn’t you just have that extra five minutes here and there in the nets?’ Why not listen to the little devil on your left shoulder rather than the one on your right that said, ‘Just bat through until tea’ rather than ‘Imagine hitting this bowler for six right now’? I always listened to that idiot.”
He further asserted that “I still dream about cricket. I take slip catches in my sleep. I’m always fielding or batting in my dreams – never bowling. Which probably tells me something – that I was a very frustrated batsman.”
How the spinners should play their role
The former veteran spinner advised England’s young spinners on how they should get a player known and how they are supposed to do that. During the interview, he said “You should know how to get a guy out as he’s walking to the crease, just by the way he holds his bat, the way his pads are on. Oh you can gauge so much. If his back knee is dirty, he’s a sweeper. If the bottom of his pads are loose, they tend to be light-footed and like going down the wicket. If they’ve got a very heavy grip, they are more likely to be a bat-pad candidate. If they grip it very high up, they are going to look to hit you over the top.”
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