England legend Graeme Swann reveals moment he woke up NAKED in lift in front of armed guards while sleepwalking on tour
GRAEME SWANN has revealed the hilarious moment he woke up naked in a lift after sleepwalking during lockdown at an Indian hotel.
The England legend was on tour of the Asian country following the Mumbai terror attacks when the mishap occurred, waking up to four armed guards in the lobby in 2008..
And the 41-year-old also insists his great pal Jimmy Anderson still has years left in a Three Lions shirt despite his injury hell over the last year. Swann says...
We got locked down in India a few times on tour and thank god for video games because there really wasn’t a lot to do.
We used to have endless Call of Duty tournaments on the Xbox, Stuart Broad was just phenomenal.
The one thing I did find weird on lockdown is that I am a sleepwalker and I woke in the lift of a Mumbai hotel, completely naked.
When I came to, there were four men with machine guns there. Two of them were asleep, and the other two were looking very nervously at me.
I didn’t know what to do so I just styled it out and went ‘alright lads, how you doing?’ and wandered back to my room with one hand over my privates.
Fortunately spinners tend to have big hands!
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Meanwhile, some people have said 2020 could be Jimmy Anderson’s last year.
This kind of break is a massive blow to guys like him who are just getting towards the end of their careers because it robs them of a year.
But knowing Jimmy as I do, he has no intention of stopping playing and he will see this time off as a chance to put some juice back in the tank.
And knowing how wound up Jimmy gets, he will be ferocious when he gets back on the field. I wouldn’t like to be a batsman facing him.
The only slight concern is that with Jimmy, his forte has always been just bowling, bowling, bowling and the longer you go without doing it, the more injuries you can pick up.
But he has got as long left in the game as his body will cope with. Mentally and skill-wise it’s still all there.
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He will just want to bowl and bowl and bowl until his body can’t take any more.
Then if the powers that be have any sense whatsoever, he will walk straight into a role in the coaching set-up as part of the bowling unit, no matter who is there already.
There will never be anyone better at that than Jimmy Anderson.
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