Siddle to play for English county Lancs

Dropped Australia Test bowler Peter Siddle has signed to play for English Division Two county Lancashire.

Australian Test seamer Peter Siddle will be Lancashire's overseas player for the 2015 cricket season, the English Division Two county announced on Thursday.

The 30-year-old, dropped by Australia during last December's Test series win over India, will return to England for a second consecutive summer after playing for Nottinghamshire last year.

Siddle, who has claimed 192 wickets in 56 Tests, is well known to English cricket fans, having been a member of the Australia squad that whitewashed England in the 2013-14 Ashes.

He took 37 wickets for Nottinghamshire in 2014 and is closing on the landmark of 400 victims in first-class cricket.

"I enjoyed my time in England last season with Nottinghamshire and when I heard of Lancashire's interest I had no hesitation in speaking with Ashley," Siddle said.


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