Breaking news: Swann quit Eng team

"After a great deal of consideration I have decided to call it a day on my international and first-class career," Swann said in a statement

Graeme Swann departed Test cricket with abrupt certainty on Sunday, but not before taking a barely disguised swipe at some of his fellow England players for not respecting the game.  “Some people playing the game at the minute have no idea how far up their own backsides they are,” Swann said at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday. “It will bite them on the a--e one day and when it does I hope they look back and are embarrassed about how they carry on.”

As a Test spinner for England, he is second to Derek Underwood, in terms of wickets, and possibly Jim Laker, though he took more Test wickets than him. “When I went past Jim Laker my mum phoned me up and she was almost in tears as Jim Laker was her dad’s favourite bowler and I only knew Grandad Les until I was seven or eight.
“My mum knew nothing about cricket but she always heard him mention Laker and she could not believe I’d gone past him. I couldn’t believe it either as I didn’t know how many wickets he had taken. I feel very humbled to have done that.