Luke Feldman tough enough for the Sydney Thunder Flying high: Luke Feldman celebrates taking a wicket for the Thunder. When your father was a sitting member for the One Nation party, you work as a Queensland policeman and you were pitch-forked as a boy to bowl against tough men in country cricket, you ought to have a thick enough hide to survive the Sydney Thunder's summer of discontent - and paceman Luke Feldman insists he does. Feldman, who has taken 100 wickets for his native Queensland, and who was named the Sydney Sixers' best player last year before he transferred to the lime-green cross-town rivals, is a proud member of the "brotherhood in blue" where he works in the intelligence section monitoring and keeping road toll statistics. While he misses being a general duties officer - Feldman walked the beat in North Queensland before he caught the attention of Queensland Cricket during the 2009 Australian Country Championships - his sports commitments mean it'd be difficult for him to follow through on any arrests. However, Feldman said his new role helped put life into its true perspective and meant a rotten day at the crease or a few poor deliveries were hardly the end of the world. "Policing is a unique job with the things you see, it's the same with the nurses, ambulance officers and firemen ... turning up to a fatality and having to go through the grieving process with the family is very tough," he said. There are things that happen, like a single vehicle traffic accident, where you wonder whether fatigue was an issue and how the driver fell asleep at the wheel. Cricket is just fun, it's not to be taken too seriously. When you look at all the serious stuff in life this is just a game; have a bowl and try to be successful. It keeps you grounded when you see people wrapped up in the little cricket bubble and they don't really see what's happening in the outside world. However, cricket is a world where Feldman, who benefited as a paceman when he grew a whopping 30cm after he completed high school, has fought hard to succeed. He recalled one of his most torturous times of his youth was the afternoon he played against grizzled men in third grade for the Caboolture Snakes and how he sobbed unashamedly as he walked back to his mark for the 13th time in an over after being no-balled a morale-crushing seven times. "I was only 13 or 14, being belted all over the park and, as a kid you get upset," he said. You don't want to let the team down ... but that's how you get that thicker skin and you become craftier as a bowler because you think more about it. The school of hard knocks, it makes you a better cricketer and a person. He added his father Bill's stint as a politician from 1998-2001 re-enforced the nobility of someone having the courage of their convictions. A long-serving police officer, he ran for state parliament to try to stop his fellow officers from being used as "punching bags" for criminals. "We were proud of him," said Feldman of his family's view on Bill's political career. The only reason he ran was because he was a strong union man - I'm in the union and support what they do for all the officers in Queensland - and the Police Association approached him. The main reason why he became a politician was to get legislation in place to protect police officers. One policy he tried to get running was mandatory sentencing, a zero tolerance, for assaults on police which is something we're still trying for. Feldman, who missed the Thunder's drought-breaking victory over the Melbourne Renegades because he was sent by the franchise to play in New Zealand's T20 competition, would love nothing more than to take the fight to his old Sixers' teammates in the lime-greeners' final fling in this year's Big Bash League at ANZ Stadium on Saturday. "I'd like to play in the last game but if I don't I'd fully understand because no one wants to change a winning team," he said. It was a great win by the boys over the Renegades. We didn't just crawl over the line, we romped home. That said, it'd be great to finish the year off.