he wasn't below par.
He was bowling well on the second day, and was decent at Lords. When you can't get the pacemen away, you attack the spinners, and when you don't need long spells from your spinner to skittle a team then it's inevitable that you won't bowl him if he takes some tonk. Swann's game has always been about luring the batsmen into shots, so he's bound to take a bit of hammer every now and again.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 11:30, Reply)