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# Peter Siddle: 10 things that could be true about Australia's Ashes hero -
but almost certainly aren't
## He's the birthday boy hat-trick hero who destroyed England's middle-order
with pace, swing and an aggressive ginger haircut. Here are ten less than hard
and fast facts you won't have heard about the man his friends call "Peter
Siddle"…
![Peter Siddle: 10 things you didn't know about Australia's Ashes hero][1]
The facts, just the facts: Peter Siddle is a man in the spotlight Photo: GETTY
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By Alan Tyers 12:53PM GMT 25 Nov 2010
[Comments][2]
*****Peter Siddle prepares for a day's bowling by eating a whole chicken, a
pound of bacon and a small dressed crab. "I've been a committed vegetarian for
a while," says the pace ace. "Ever since Glenn McGrath told me what they do to
sheep to make the lamb come out."
*Peter Siddle is the finest canasta player in the **[Australian][3]** Cricket
team, bar none.
*Peter Siddle lists his sporting heroes as Jean-Claude Van Damme in
Bloodsport, Jean Claude Van Damme in Kickboxer, Jean-Claude Van Damme in
Double Impact and Justine Henin.
*Although he shares a birthday with Joe Di Maggio, Peter Siddle has not been
immortalised in a song lyric by Simon And Garfunkel. Ironically, Peter Siddle
has written and recorded an entire double LP of songs about the multi-platinum
pop duo. He is credited with encouraging Art Garfunkel to retire from public
life.
*Peter Siddle identifies the key attributes for being a pace bowler as "heart,
aggression, guts, determination and having arms - in that order".
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*Peter Siddle is petrified of geese.
*Before getting a job as a cricketer, Peter Siddle worked as a decorator, a
sculptor, a hired goon, rhythm guitarist in Crowded House, a drayman, a
drayhorse and Australian Minister For Overseas Trade And Development.
*Peter Siddle's best friends in cricket are Mitchell Johnson, Dougie Bollinger
and Rachael Heyhoe-Flint.
*Like many top fast bowlers, Peter Siddle has had his battles with injury but,
unlike many of his colleagues, he has never sought treatment for a niggle,
because he regards going to the doctor as "unmanly and un-Australian".
*When he retires, Peter Siddle would like to open up a boutique, learn how to
play the banjo and perform interpretative dance, although he is also
considering playing cricket until he expires.
* _**[Alan Tyers ][9]**is a cricket writer and author of the spoof Victorian
cricket annual **['W.G. Grace Ate My Pedalo'.][10]**[ ][10]He will be writing
for The Telegraph during The Ashes._
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