Wednesday 28 May 2008

Swann wants Twenty20 crown


Graeme Swann is determined Notts will go the extra step and lift the Twenty20 crown this season.

The England international may only have limited time to feature for Notts if, as expected, he is picked as part of the one day series squad to face New Zealand in June.

But he feels the club should have won the competition last season as they went out to Kent in a re-arranged quarter-final at Trent Bridge.

He said: “Everyone around the club knows we should have won it last year and we messed up in that one quarter final where it all started so well and just went to pot inside half an hour.”

“We’ve still a got strong side and can beat anyone on the day.”

And he admitted he savours the increased popularity of the shorter form of the game.

He added: “It’s great to walk out on Trent Bridge and have 15,000 people cheering you on. I don’t enjoy the longer form of the one day game half as much as Twenty20.”

“It’s adrenaline packed and it’s exciting and you come off more tired from a Twenty20 game than you do a 50 over match.”

“You throw yourself around and you get swept up in the emotion of the crowd, it’s brilliant and you get to stay in bed longer in the morning so it’s a winner all round!”

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