Swann reveals death threats

[daryl1985]

Fans threaten England spinner in wake of heavy defeat England spinner Graeme Swann has revealed he has been sent death threats via Twitter in the wake of his side's one-day hammering in India. Following a summer of domination over the Indians, England went down 5-0 to the same opponents on the sub-continent and Swann- unbeaten with the bat as 10 wickets were lost for just 47 runs in Tuesday's final game - has been in the firing line. He told The Sun: "Although I don't condone death threats on Twitter, I could almost understand it when I had a couple of hundred people threatening all manner of retribution after Tuesday's match. "Not everyone in cyberworld has a perspective - after all, it is only a game of cricket. But you can almost understand why people get wound up. "It can't be easy to watch us, not just losing but losing the way we did." Horror Meanwhile, Swann has refuted claims that his autobiography, in which he criticised the leadership skills of his team-mate and former captain Kevin Pietersen, had anything to do with the series results. "England have endured a horror month but I can state right now it has nothing to do with what I wrote about Kevin Pietersen in my book," Swann, who will lead England in Saturday's one-off Twenty20 international, added. "People have claimed my observation that KP is not a natural leader and should not have captained England has caused dressing-room divisions and a breakdown in team spirit. "Well, anybody who thinks that does not know this England team. "The reason we lost the one-day series 5-0 to India is because we've been outplayed in conditions which suit the home team. No excuses, we've been hammered. "As soon as I serialised my autobiography, I spoke to Kevin and explained exactly what I'd written, why I'd written it and that it was not intended as a personal attack on him. "He accepted that and we shook hands. My relationship with Kevin is exactly the same now as before the book was published." Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cricket/graeme-swann-reveals-twitter-death-threats-after-india-defeat-2377090.html

[BeautifulGame]

He seems to be referring to English fans who probably have abused him on twitter for his poor series.

[daryl1985]

This article is published on the Sky Sports website but i read an extended version of this article on my phone this morning in which he talked about the sledging between the 2 sides. He said: "As for sledging the opposition, i don't think any of our chat has been over the top or personal. I know there have been running battles with a couple of India's players and i think that is caused by individuals in our team disliking individuals in their team." "We have played India for 3 months and you are never gonna like all 11 blokes in the opposition." "I can assure you the comments and personal abuse Samit Patel receives from the Indian players is a lot worse than anything we have said."

[daryl1985]

He seems to be referring to English fans who probably have abused him on twitter for his poor series.

Yeah that surprised me because English cricket fans are not the sort to post death threats. When i 1st saw the title i thought it was referring to India fans as there are a lot of Indian fans on twitter giving various English cricket figures a lot of stick.

[vvvslaxman]

I think KP abused Swann for his book :cantstop:

[Yoda-esque]

Wait till the test series is over :cantstop:

[ganeshran]

Death threats on twitter? :WTF: :hysterical: Me thinks Swann is just highlighting a non issue to sell some more of his books.

[The Realist]

Why would anyone want to "threaten" a journeyman cricketer? Seems to me he's making himself out to be high profile when he's not and trying to seek attention from the Eng press who are more focussed on the football and rugby. Ignore.

[daryl1985]

Does anyone know what the Indian players were saying to Samit Patel?

[ganeshran]

I searched on twitter and found no death threats against him. :dontknow: Unless he was following the fans, they couldnt have sent him a DM either.

[Trichromatic]

Death threats on twitter? :WTF: :hysterical: Me thinks Swann is just highlighting a non issue to sell some more of his books.

Probably he exaggerated the comments, but he is receiving lot of stick from his countrymen for loss in India and other issues.

[hiha]

:WTF: is swann upto? wanna create publicity just like akhtar nd greg chappel talking bs about sachin

[VRV Singh]

No idea about death threats, but Swann is quite the publicity seeker. Autobiography while playing and a regular column in a tabloid..cheeky chappy thing only works so long..

[ganeshran]

Found one abusive tweet, but not a death threat.

[J P K]

While admitting that England were thrashed in the recent one-day series by India, off-spinner Graeme Swann has rejected accusations that the visitors went over the top in sledging of Indian players, even to the extent of getting personal with some of them. "There has been a lot of talk about England's on-field behaviour in the five-match series, especially after MS Dhoni claimed some of our sledging was over the top and we were arguing among ourselves. As for sledging the opposition, I don't think any of our chat has been over the top or personal," The Sun quoted Swann, as saying. "I know there have been running battles with a couple of India's players and I think caused by individuals in our team disliking individuals in their team. We have played India for three months now. You're never going to like all 11 blokes in the opposition. These things happen," he added. "I can assure you the comments and personal abuse Samit Patel receives from the Indian players is far worse than anything we've said," said Swann. "We must improve our one-day performances overseas. We've lost 6-1 in Australia, had a disappointing World Cup and now lost 5-0 here. On current form away from home, we wouldn't beat the Women's Institute. And no disrespect to the WI - I'm sure they have some very fine leg-spinners. Losing 10 wickets for 47 runs in the final match was embarrassing," said the spinner. (ANI)