Siddle, Christian to co-captain PM’s XI
The Prime Minister’s XI will have co-captains for the first time with Test workhorse Peter Siddle and Indigenous cricket captain Dan Christian taking the reins Peter Siddle and Dan Christian will co-captain the Prime Minister’s XI in a Twenty20 match against Sri Lanka in Canberra next month, Cricket Australia announced today. Siddle, 34, is fresh from Australia’s drawn Ashes Test series in the UK that saw the visitors become the first team to retain the trophy on foreign soil for nearly two decades. And Christian, the veteran allrounder that was a key member of the Melbourne Renegades side that won last summer’s KFC BBL title, is also the current captain of the Australian Aboriginal Cricket Team, honoring his family links to the Wiradjuri tribe. , honoring his family links to the Wiradjuri tribe. Siddle played the most recent of his 67 Test matches for Australia at The Oval in a defeat that saw the Ashes series drawn 2-2, and Test captain Tim Paine revealed the Victorian had bowled through a hip injury picked up on the first day. “Peter Siddle tore a hip flexor bowling on the first morning,” Paine wrote in a column for…