The class clown has become headmaster for a few days and proud skipper Swann is revelling in his role in charge of a fresh- looking side for two matches against the West Indies.
And he fired out a warning to the likes of Kevin Pietersen that their places in the shortest format could well be snatched for good.

The big guns could fall silent if tonight and Sunday at The Oval go according to plan for the likes of Jos Buttler and Jonny Bairstow, the man of the moment.
Swann said: “I see this as a team of young people, but one that has been brought up on a diet of T20 cricket and excelled at it for their clubs. I can’t see the team next year being vastly different from this squad.
“There will be the odd player that comes back in, but cricket is one of those games where new superstars emerge all the time.
“And this team has the potential to have four or five mega-stars especially the likes of Bairstow.
“We’ve only had a glimpse of what he can do, we’ve not seen anything of Ben Stokes yet and we all know what a good player he is.
“Then of course there is Jos Buttler, who will come to the party.”
England (probable): Hales, Kieswetter (wk), Bopara, Stokes, Buttler, Bairstow, Bresnan, Swann (c), Borthwick, ¬Dernbach, Anderson.
West Indies (probable): Bascombe, Smith, Samuels, Hyatt, Bonner, Christian (wk), Sammy (c), Russell, Mathurin, Bishoo, Edwards.