Who dares spins

GRAEME Swann says he went on SAS: Who Dares Wins to prove he is no quitter after a bitter end to his cricket career.But the former England spinner, 46, admits he found the Channel 4 challenge much tougher than he expected.

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He says: "I honestly thought because it's television, I thought it'd be a bit watered down for what you see and a bit dramatised. It really isn't. It is brutal.

"Some of the crap you have to crawl through and swim through and put your body through. It was mind-numbingly hard."

But he adds: "Actually, I loved it. One of the reasons I wanted to do it, I've got three kids and I wanted to show them that, hey, I'm not a quitter, that I'll never give in, unless it's for the good of everyone.

"And I wanted to test myself, to see if I was mentally strong enough, because I'm 46... this is probably as fit as I've been, but it is not an old-man's game, special forces stuff."