 Swann celebrates the wicket of Wahab Riaz during the third Test with Pakistan
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Graeme Swann has been belatedly added to the International Cricket Council's contenders for player of the year.
The original list of 16 for Cricketer of the Year featured no England players but an ICC spokesman told BBC Sport Swann's omission was an "oversight".
The off-spinner's absence had caused an outcry, after he took 49 Test wickets at 27.55 and 28 one-day wickets at 23 during the qualification period.
Other names on the list include Ricky Ponting and Sachin Tendulkar.
The rest of the nominees include South Africans Hashim Amla, Jacques Kallis, Dale Steyn, AB de Villiers and Morne Morkel, India's Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Virender Sehwag.
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Australian quintet Doug Bollinger, Michael Clarke, Ryan Harris, Mitchell Johnson, Doug Bollinger and Shane Watson, plus Kumar Sangakkara of Sri Lanka and New Zealand's Daniel Vettori complete the line-up.
The five-man ICC panel who drew up the long list was chaired by Clive Lloyd and included ex-players Angus Fraser, Matthew Hayden and Ravi Shastri, plus former England coach Duncan Fletcher.
Fraser defended the panel's original decision after he was questioned by Michael Vaughan during Phil Tufnell's Cricket Show on Radio 5 live, but admitted Swann was "unlucky".
The England spinner took two of the three Pakistan wickets to fall in the morning session on day two of the third Test at The Oval.
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