Peter Siddle has been in and out of the Australian team.
In 64 Tests before the start of the current Ashes series, he has scored 1080 runs and has taken 214 wickets. In the current Test, he was the second top-scorer and made 44 batting at number 10.
He has taken 8 fivers and a hat-trick, and also holds one batting record as he is the only batsman to have scored two fifties in a Test while batting at No 9.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/7898.html
Older cricket fans would remember Raju Bharatan and his horrible puns. He would have a field day with Peter Siddle, as his surname rhymes with many other words (not all of them polite): diddle, fiddle, middle, piddle, riddle, griddle etc.
The British media had this to say after one of his good performances: “Peter goes from second fiddle to fecund Siddle”.
Not quite up to the standard of Shashi Tharoor, but a good try.
abn397 
Good one, Ajai.
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