England’s first pre-Ashes series injury scare: Graeme Swann
The Ashes series has been making news all week (re: the verbal
diarrhoea war of words between the two camps: England and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746), and there is yet
another headline before the series has even started; this time the news involves the English ace spin bowler
Graeme Swann.
The English media went frantic when news of Swann getting injured in the nets surfaced. However, the English side later cleared everything up and it was revealed that Swann did get hit on his bowling hand but it did not cause any
serious injury.
Stuart Broad told the press that Graeme Swann was fine and only got a blow on his thumb which after receiving ice treatment is just fine. Broad’s statements cleared the rumours that Graeme might have gotten a serious injury, putting
him out of the first Test of the Ashes.
The English side is depending on Swann’s spin bowling to give the Australians panic attacks in the series this year. Swann is currently regarded as the top-ranked spin bowler in the world, and is most likely England’s ultimate
weapon against the Australians. An injury to a top bowler now will definitely put http://www.senore.com/Cricket/A-Dent-c41093 in the hopes of both sides for snatching the series.
Swann has been performing exceptionally well for the English side in recent times, and will probably give the Australians nightmares on the field, if he bowls with his best form intact.
Graeme, after making his Test Debut in 2008 against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750, has played twenty-four Test matches with a bowling average of 26.55 with 113 wickets in forty two innings under his belt. His record clearly speaks for itself: for England,
he is irreplaceable, especially as they make their bid to lift the Ashes trophy in Australian turf for the first time in decades.
English captain Andrew Strauss feels that Swann will pull many tricks out of his sleeve once he is launched against the Aussies. Swann’s bowling definitely has enough claws to make life difficult for Ricky Ponting’s men on the
field.
The lanky spinner has the ability to mock the batsmen by not letting his opponents score freely, and this is exactly what is hoped from him against Ponting’s warriors.
After Swann was injured, he was immediately pardoned from taking part in the rest of the day’s training sessions and proper treatment was given to his thumb; however, luckily for England all that was required was just the ol’ ice
treatment. Later, Swann posted a comment on his Twitter page, telling his fans that the injury was not serious: “…thanks to both of you who enquired about my thumb. It’s fine. I just like my boiled eggs runny,” ‘Tweeted’ Swann.
However, Swann is now the third member of the English Squad to suffer an injury, following the rib injuries sustained by the fast bowlers James Anderson and Chris Tremlett during the pre-series training sessions last month. James
Anderson was seen in the nets practising with relative ease even though he has an unhealed fracture in his rib.
All things said and done, perhaps an injury or two will even things out between the two archrivals, since Australia already have a few injuries of their own haunting them before the Ashes.
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