Swann took 2-72 on a spinning wicket at the Adelaide Oval on Monday as England reduced Australia to 238-4 in their second innings, still 137 runs behind England's massive 620-5 declared.
England spinner Graeme Swann said he had bowled 'like a 12-year-old' in the first Ashes test but was still happy to take on the responsibility of finishing Australia off on the last day of the second test.
Swann took 2-72 on a spinning wicket at the Adelaide Oval on Monday as England reduced Australia to 238-4 in their second innings, still 137 runs behind England's massive 620-5 declared.
Kevin Pietersen's occasional spin captured the key wicket of Michael Clarke on the last ball of the day but it is Swann who will be expected to remove most of the remaining Australian batsmen on Tuesday and clinch victory.
"That's my job as a spinner, if you're the only spinner in the team, on the last day it comes down to you to bowl from one end and take as many wickets as you can," Swann told reporters.
"Personally I couldn't give a monkey's who takes the wickets and I was so glad KP got that one in the last over, because as I say, Clarke's their best player of spin and to get him out like that was magic."
Swann thinks his old Northamptonshire team mate Mike Hussey, who finished the day on 44 not out, would be the crucial wicket on the final day.
Massive wicket
"He's played exceptionally well in this Ashes, probably the second best batsman after Alastair Cook in the series so far," Swann said.
"He's a massive wicket for us tomorrow, he's a guy who can hang around and bat for days. But we've opened one end up and we''ve got (Marcus) North coming in and he's under a lot of pressure.
"We're only a couple of balls away from the bowlers. We'll be very confident we can keep one end open and if we can get Hussey early with the new ball, it's going to be fantastic."
Swann, now the top ranked bowler in the world, came into the series with a great weight of expectation but was disappointed with some of his bowling in the drawn first test at the Gabba.
"Hussey's a good player but my mother could've beaten me all over the place on that first morning at Brisbane, I was dreadful," he recalled.
"At Brisbane during parts of my spell I was very happy with the way I bowled, there were just little pockets there where I bowled like a 12-year-old which is disappointing in the first game of the Ashes series.
"I've bowled a lot better in this game so I'm very happy."
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