Swann included in one-day world XI

Cricket’s governing body held their annual awards ceremony in London last night, and before the dinner they revealed a 50-over team of the year captained by India’s Mahendra Singh Dhoni. His World Cup-winners have been out of luck and out of sorts in England this summer, and on Sunday added NatWest Series defeat to the Test whitewash their hosts had already inflicted on them.

Off-spinner Swann, inked in for England in all three formats of international cricket, is the only specialist slow bowler in the ICC’s select XI, which features team features four members of India’s world-beating line-up, two from World Cup finalists Sri Lanka, two from South Africa, and one each from Pakistan and Australia.

Meanwhile, England are facing a Twenty20 headache after captain Stuart Broad revealed he has torn a muscle in his shoulder.

Broad received the results of a scan after suffering sudden pain in his right arm almost at the point of delivery in the last over of India’s innings during Sunday’s tied NatWest Series match at Lord’s.

Steven Finn had to complete the stricken Broad’s bowling duties and after an uncomfortable net on the nursery ground it was decided he would be able to bat if necessary as England chased 280 for five.

Broad’s number eight position was filled instead by Swann, however, and he was held back to 11, not required in the end as bad weather resulted in a dramatic Duckworth-Lewis tie which meant England clinched the series.

The injury appears likely to rule Broad out of the dead rubber at the SWALEC. More concerning, though, is whether Broad, England’s skipper in the Twenty20 form of the game, will be fit to face the West Indies at The Oval in two matches on 23 and 25 September.