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Peter Siddle celebrates the wicket of Jonathan Trott at Trent Bridge. Source:Getty Images
PETER Siddle has ripped the heart out of England in a spectacular start to the Ashes series.
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After a slow start, Siddle claimed 5-22 in 51 balls as England slumped to 6-185 at tea.
Siddle had 5-50 from 14 overs at the break, his eighth five-wicket haul in 42 Tests.
Australia's most experienced bowler, he was under pressure to hold his place in the team after poor form in warm-up matches.
His first four-over spell from the Pavilion End was disappointing, going for 27 runs, but the instant captain Michael Clarke moved Siddle to the Radcliffe Road end he turned the game on its head.
After his Dandenong club mate James Pattinson had England captain Alastair Cook caught behind for 13, continuing his poor record at Trent Bridge, Siddle cut a swath through the England batting.
He delivered a wonderful yorker to Joe Root (30), which swung away late from the right hander, flying past the outside edge of his bat and crashing into the base of off stump.
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Kevin Pietersen could have been dismissed for just one when he tickled a ball from Pattinson down the leg side. Wicket-keeper Brad Haddin dived desperately but the ball flew under his left glove on the way to the boundary.
However Pietersen (14) became the victim of his own ego shortly after lunch, playing too hard at a ball from Siddle which moved away, taking the outside edge and flying to Clarke at second slip.
Trott had been the pick of England's batsmen, striking the ball wonderfully from the moment he replaced Cook at the crease.
It was a surprise then when he dragged another full delivery from Siddle into the stumps on 48, leaving England 4-124.
He then removed Ian Bell (25) with a wonderful outswinger. Catching Bell in two minds whether to leave or play, he limply pushed at the ball with an angled bat, edging to Shane Watson at first slip.
Then Matt Prior (1) appeared to fall for a sucker ball, slapping a short, wide delivery straight to Phil Hughes at a strategically placed forward point, leaving heavy Ashes favourites England in trouble at 6-180.
If shock selection Ashton Agar was hoping for a Shane Warne moment with his first ball in an Ashes Test it failed to materialise.
Agar was brought on little more than an hour into this Ashes series but sadly for the nervous 19-year-old his first delivery was a low full toss which Trott drove through the covers to the boundary.
To be fair Agar bowled just one other ball which was scored from in his initial three-over spell, a short delivery that was cut for four, as his drift and drop troubled Trott at times.
Warne had already played 11 Tests and taken 31 wickets when he delivered "that ball" which bowled Mike Gatting during the 1993 tour. Agar has taken 31 wickets in his 10 first class games.
Cook has had a terrible time at Trent Bridge. In his six previous Tests at the ground Cook had averaged just 19.5 and has never made a half-century there but has dominated on every other ground in England and many around the world.
His wicket came against the flow of a nervous start by the Australian bowlers.
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