Swann damns England\\\'s WC hopes

BRISTOL, Aug 26 (AFP): Graeme Swann believes England "do not have a cat in hell's chance" of winning next year's World Cup unless they add more firepower to their top-order batting.

Sunday saw England captain Alastair Cook suggest that the team's prospects for the tournament in Australia and New Zealand were "very good".

But former England off-spinner Swann was far more pessimistic.

Swann, speaking to BBC Radio's Test Match Special as rain washed out the first one-day international against world champions India in Bristol without a ball bowled Monday, insisted England were "so far behind other teams" in their approach to the limited-overs game.