Veteran Siddle’s incredible career is what impresses fans best

Adelaide Strikers veteran Peter Siddle is showing no signs of slowing down. He takes the best numbers of his career to lead his squad to a comfortable BBL win over Hobart Hurricanes.

The 36 year old claimed 5-16 from 3.3 overs on a seam friendly deck in Launceston on Tuesday night to taxi the Hurricanes for 146.

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Opening strikers Jake Weatherald led the chase with an unbeaten 68 out of 48 when Adelaide took a five-wicket win, the first of the summer.

Adelaide wobbled 2: 9, but Weatherald threw a large part of the barrels next to the steady hand of skipper Alex Carey (55).

Siddle had previously grabbed the new ball, leaving Hurricanes’ focal point D’Arcy Short just two minutes before returning late to run through the lower order.

“He just doesn’t miss his length and he’s so consistent in Twenty20 cricket,” Weatherald said of Siddle.

“He’s one of the best bowlers in the competition … good York throwing, good length and bowling in any situation.

“You just throw him the ball and he’ll do the job.”

The five-wicket move was Siddle’s first in T20 cricket and his numbers were the fourth-best in Big Bash history.

Siddle’s incredible performance has impressed the cricket world.

Hurricanes fall for the first loss of the season

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After Hobart was sent in, it dropped to 3-20 before Ben McDermott and South African importer Colin Ingram started a mini-restoration.

After a century for Australia A against India in the Pink Ball Tour game, McDermott scored 46 out of 33 while Ingram scored 46 out of 35.

Adelaides Wes Agar (2-28) removed the dangerous Ingram on the 16th as the Hurricanes were about to take off.

Hobart was all out in the final when Siddle gave Riley Meredith a clean bowling.

For the first time, under new rules introduced this season, both teams used their X-Factor substitutes at the 10-over mark.

The Hurricanes, who had lost 3-70 by this point, decided to bolster their batting by replacing spinner Johan Botha with Mac Wright.

Wright didn’t have the desired effect, however, and became one of Siddle’s victims for 15 years.

Adelaide defeated crank Danny Briggs, one of whom went for 15, and included all-rounder Matt Short, who bowled six balls for a golden duck.

According to the rule, teams can put one of two reserves into their XI, provided they have not hit or thrown more than one reserve.

It was the Hurricanes’ first loss after winning their first two games.

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