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England ’s cricketers have fought out a thrilling test series with Sri Lanka and will consider themselves unlucky to lose at Headingley after the tourists took the final English wicket with just one ball to spare. In reality, the lack of a specialist spinner has cost Alastair Cook’s men and most pundits agree that the hosts would have taken that second test had the balance of the side been better. The retirement of Graeme Swann has given the selectors a real headache but they have to find a replacement quickly. Here are five candidates vying to fill Swann’s shoes. 1.Monty Panesar Essex’s Panesar would be the logical choice but for a string of disciplinary issues that saw the left armer described by national coach Peter Moores as ‘very difficult to select’. After a much publicised incident in a Sussex nightclub last year, Monty left Sussex and joined up with his new team mates at Chelmsford but at the start of June he was dropped after turning up late for a team meeting. ...

England offspinner Graeme Swann has announced his retirement from all-form of cricket with immediate effect during the Ashes tour. The 34-year-old has been popular figure in England cricket, he is the sixth-leading wicket taker of all time in Tests for England. He made his Test debut in 2008, since then he took 255 wickets in 60 Tests. During the current Ashes tour in Australia, Swann claims seven wickets in the three Tests. He said in a statement: "After a great deal of consideration I have decided to call it a day on my international and first-class career." "This decision has been very difficult seeing as the England team has been my family for seven years now, but I feel that now is the right time to step down."

Graeme Swann will captain England T20 Team in the two matches against West Indies Twenty20 series this month in the absence of Eoin Morgan and Stuart Broad. Broad, the Twenty20 Captain regulate who began his reign earlier this season against Sri Lanka, was ruled by the rest of the main season in England, as well as the ODI series in five games in the India next month. Jonathan Bairstow and Danny Briggs two uncapped players have been included in the squad of 14 men. James Anderson has been recall in T20 Squad since November 2009. Squad : Graeme Swann (capt), Jonathan Bairstow, James Anderson, Scott Borthwick, Ravi Bopara, Tim Bresnan, Jos Buttler, Danny Briggs, Jade Dernbach, Alex Hales, Steven Finn, Craig Kieswetter (wk), Ben Stokes, Samit Patel.