On a recent episode of the Yorkshire Cricket: Covers Off podcast, Tim Bresnan told the story of an elaborate – and slightly grim – prank he once played on England teammate Graeme Swann.
Bresnan explained how during a home ODI series against Australia, the Yorkshireman made best use of a master key he found in his room, presumably accidentally left there by a member of staff at the hotel.
“We’re in Durham playing Australia in a one-day series,” said Bresnan. “You know the Radisson across the bridge? We’re in there and I come back to my room after training, walked through the door and there’s a key card on my dresser. I thought, ‘That’s weird, I don’t remember leaving that there.’ I picked it up, tried the door and it’s worked. Then I tried next door and it worked, it let me in. It must have been a master key, one of the cleaner’s keys or something. You can only imagine the fun we could have had with this key.
“We’re walking across the bridge and just as we went across the bridge, down come the stairs Swanny and his wife. He’s gone out and… I don’t know. Sarah [Swann’s wife] must have been downstairs waiting for him to go to dinner – we didn’t have a clue that she was there. He was describing the scenes the next day, ‘I couldn’t get porn off the TV lads, I literally couldn’t get the porn off the TV. I got room service to come and make my bed and all three of us were stood there watching porn while she was making the bed up.'”
