Peter Siddle

Peter Siddle

Personal information
Full name	Peter Matthew Siddle
Born	25 November 1984 Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
Nickname	Sid Vicious,[1] The Banana Man [2]
Height	187 cm (6 ft 2 in)[3]
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling style	Right-arm fast-medium
Role	Bowler
International information
National side	Australia
Test debut (cap 403)	17 October 2008 v India
Last Test	3 November 2016 v South Africa
ODI debut (cap 172)	13 February 2009 v New Zealand
Last ODI	5 November 2010 v Sri Lanka
ODI shirt no.	10
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2005–	Victoria
2011–2012	Melbourne Stars
2013–	Melbourne Renegades
2014	Nottinghamshire
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA Matches 62 17 134 45 Runs scored 1,063 21 2,491 106 Batting average 14.76 10.50 17.54 7.06 100s/50s 0/2 0/0 1/5 0/0 Top score 51 9* 103* 25* Balls bowled 12,941 751 25,516 2,194 Wickets 211 15 451 48 Bowling average 29.92 38.73 27.85 35.43 5 wickets in innings 8 0 17 0 10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a Best bowling 6/54 3/55 8/54 4/27 Catches/stumpings 16/– 1/– 45/– 6/–
Source: CricInfo, 12 November 2016

Peter Matthew Siddle (born 25 November 1984) is an Australian Test cricketer. He is a specialist right-arm fast bowler who plays for Victoria and Australia.

He became the 15th Australian to get 200 wickets in Test cricket, making Doug Bracewell his 200th victim in the first ever day/night Test against New Zealand in Adelaide.

Early life and career

Peter Matthew Siddle was born in Traralgon, Victoria.^[1] He grew up in Morwell, Gippsland, and began playing cricket at the age of 14 for the Latrobe Cricket Club. As a teenager, he experienced success at under-17 level taking 11/47 in a state match, breaking the Victorian state record set by John Scholes.^[1] In 2003, Siddle attended the Australian Cricket Academy and made his first-class debut playing for Victoria against a touring West Indian side at Melbourne in November 2005.^[1] In 2006 he attended the Academy again and was offered a full contract with the Victorian Bushrangers for the 2006–07 season. After that, despite suffering a number of shoulder injuries which limited his playing opportunities,^[1] he became a regular in the Victorian side.

He was selected as one of the entrants to the Who's Who in Australia 2011 edition.^[4]

Siddle signed for English county Essex for the 2012 Friends Life t20.^[5] Following an injury he picked up on Australia's tour of the West Indies, Siddle was unable to fulfill his contract with Essex.^[6]

Outside of cricket, he, like Ricky Ponting, is an avid supporter of Australian Football, North Melbourne and the Melbourne Storm in the National Rugby League.^[7] In 2012, Siddle joined his girlfriend in adopting a Vegan Lifestyle.^[8]

Siddle signed to play for Nottinghamshire in 2014 making himself available for all of the LV County Championship and 50-over matches but not the Twenty20 games.^[9]

In July 2014, he played for the Rest of the World side in the Bicentenary Celebration match at Lord's.^[10]

Test career

After just twelve first-class matches and touring India with Australia A, Siddle was named in the national 15-man squad for the four-Test tour of India on 12 September 2008, as back up to established bowlers Brett Lee, Stuart Clark and Mitchell Johnson. When Clark injured his elbow prior to the Second Test, Siddle was selected in the match squad. He made his Test debut at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium in Mohali on 16 October 2008. He picked up 3/114 in the first innings, finishing with match figures of four for 176.^[11]

Siddle lost his position when Clark recovered, only to regain it when the elbow injury recurred prior to the First Test against South Africa at the WACA, 2008. He broke through with three wickets in front of his home crowd at the Melbourne Cricket Ground during the Boxing Day Test against South Africa on his way to figures of four for 81 in the first innings.^[12] Siddle backed this performance up in the next Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground, taking five for 59 in South Africa's first innings.^[13] His efforts were not enough, however, to prevent Australia from succumbing to a historic home series defeat.^[14]

Siddle also gave a fine account of himself on the South African leg of the rubber, in which the Australians triumphed 2–1. Going into the 2009 Ashes series, he had notched up 29 Test wickets at an average of 27.65. That it had come in six Tests against the South Africans and one in India, and with an economy rate of only 2.57 an over, made his record still more impressive.^[15] In the first Test of the 2009 Ashes Series, Siddle took 2/97 in the first day's play.^[16] In the fourth Test of the 2009 Ashes Series, Siddle took 5/21 in the first day as his career best.

On 25 November 2010, Siddle's 26th birthday, he took a Test hat-trick amongst his six wickets in the first Test of the 2010–11 Ashes series, taking six for just 54 runs, his best ever in test match cricket as he bowled 16 overs in total.^[17] On 29 December 2010, Siddle scored 40 in the 2nd innings of the 4th Ashes Test at the MCG, his highest score in first class cricket. Following the end of the 4th Test, Siddle was ranked 9th in the ICC Test Player Rankings.

Siddle took his 100th Test wicket at the SCG on 3 January 2012 in the second Test of Australia's home series against India. During the same series he rose to a career-high seventh in the ICC's Test bowler rankings.^[18][19] He was named the man of the match in the fourth and final Test of the series, having taken 5/49 in the first innings.^[20][21] He took 23 wickets in the series at an average of 18.65.^[22]

On 24 March 2013, Peter Siddle became the first number 9 batsman to score a half century in both innings of a Test match.

On 13 February 2016, Siddle became the 100th Australian player to reach 1,000 Test runs.

Philanthropy

Siddle and his partner, Anna, house rescue dogs until they are healthy enough for adoption. The first owner of the rescued dogs was Aaron Finch.^[23]

Performances

Test 5 wicket hauls

#	Figures	Match	Opponent	Venue	City	Country	Year
1	5/59	4	South Africa	SCG	Sydney	Australia	2009
2	5/21	11	England	Headingley	Leeds	England	2009
3	6/54	18	England	The Gabba	Brisbane	Australia	2010
4	6/75	21	England	MCG	Melbourne	Australia	2010
5	5/49	31	India	Adelaide Oval	Adelaide	Australia	2012
6	5/54	35	Sri Lanka	Bellerive Oval	Hobart	Australia	2012
7	5/71	40	India	PCA Stadium	Mohali	India	2013
8	5/50	42	England	Trent Bridge	Nottingham	England	2013

Milestones (Test)

Wicket No.	Batsman	How Out	Ground	Year
1	Sachin Tendulkar (IND)	Caught (M Hayden)	PCA Stadium	2008
50	Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WIN)	LBW	The Gabba	2009
100	Umesh Yadav (IND)	Caught (B Haddin)	SCG	2012
150	Murali Vijay (IND)	Caught (M Wade)	Feroz Shah Kotla	2013
200	Doug Bracewell (NZ)	Caught (J Burns)	Adelaide Oval	2015

International Recognition

• 2009 – ICC Emerging Player of the Year

Career best performances

	Bowling
	Score	Fixture	Venue	Season
Test	6/54	Australia v England	Gabba, Brisbane	2010 [24]
ODI	3/55	Australia v England	SuperSport Park, Centurion	2009 [25]
T20I	2/24	Australia v New Zealand	SCG, Sydney	2009 [26]
FC	8/54	South Australia v Victoria	Glenelg Oval, Adelaide	2015 [27]
LA	4/27	Tasmania v Victoria	Bellerive Oval, Hobart	2009 [28]
T20	4/29	Victoria v Wayamba	SuperSport Park, Centurion	2010 [29]

International Awards

Test Cricket

Man of the Match Awards

S No	Series	Season	Match Performance	Result
1	3rd Test – South Africa in Australia Test Series	2008/09	1st Innings: 23 (36 balls: 3×4); 27.5–11–59–5 2nd Innings: DNB; 27–12–54–3	Australia won by 103 runs.[30]
2	4th Test – Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2011/12 Test Series	2011/12	1st Innings: 2 (15 balls); 15–2–49–5; 1 catch 2nd Innings: DNB; 14–5–47–1	Australia won by 298 runs.[31]
3	1st Test – Warne-Murali Trophy 2012/13 Test Series	2012/13	1st Innings: DNB; 25.3–11–54–5 2nd Innings: 4 (5 balls: 1×4); 26–11–50–4	Australia won by 137 runs.[32]

References

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5. "Siddle to join Essex for T20". ESPNcricinfo. 22 February 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
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8. "Peter Siddle Vegetarian". Cricket Australia TV, YouTube. 15 October 2012. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
9. "Sign to Nottinghamshire". Nottinghamshire ccc website. 13 November 2013. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
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15. Booth, Lawrence. "Myths; And stereotypes." The Spin, 30 June 2009.
16. "Scorecard:England v Australia, 1st Test at Cardiff, 8–12 July 2009". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2009-07-09.
17. "Ashes: Peter Siddle hat-trick shocks England at Gabba". BBC Sport. 25 November 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-25.
18. "Siddle, Trott jump up rankings". ABC Sport. Retrieved 31 December 2010.
19. "Siddle, Herath achieve career-best rankings". India Blooms. 30 December 2011. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
20. Barrett, Chris (29 January 2012). "Rising from the Ashes". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
21. "India tour of Australia, 2011/12 / Scorecard: Fourth Test". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
22. "Records / Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 2011/12 / Most wickets". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
23. 'Guess What?!' hosted by mini Boof Lehmann
24. "England tour of Australia, 2010/11 - Australia v England Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 29 November 2010. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
25. "ICC Champions Trophy, 1st Semi-Final, 2009/10 - Australia v England Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 2 October 2009. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
26. "New Zealand tour of Australia, 2008/09 - Australia v New Zealand Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 15 February 2009. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
27. "Sheffield Shield, 2014/15 - SA v VIC Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 8 March 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
28. "Ford Ranger Cup, 2008/09 - TAS v VIC Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 7 February 2009. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
29. "Champions League Twenty20, 2010 - Victoria v Wayamba Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 20 September 2010. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
30. "South Africa tour of Australia, 2008/09 – Australia v South Africa Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 7 January 2009. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
31. "India tour of Australia, 2011/12 – Australia v India Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 28 January 2012. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
32. "Sri Lanka tour of Australia, 2012/13 - Australia v Sri Lanka Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 18 December 2012. Retrieved 19 January 2015.

External links

• Player profile: Peter Siddle from ESPNcricinfo
• Player profile: Peter Siddle from CricketArchive