Keith Miller
Died | 11 October 2004 Mornington, Victoria, Australia | (aged 84)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nickname | Nugget | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm fast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut (cap 168) | 29 March 1946 v New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 11 October 1956 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1937/38–1946/47 | Victoria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1947/48–1955/56 | New South Wales | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1959 | MCC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1959 | Nottinghamshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 19 December 2007 |
Keith Ross Miller
A member of the record-breaking
Away from cricket, Miller was also a successful
Miller's personality – love of the contest, rather than victory, and his larger-than-life rebelliousness and carousing – helped both shape and limit his cricketing career, as he espoused the opposite of the more puritanical values of
Early years
Born on 28 November 1919 in the western
At the age of 12, he was selected for an under-15 Victorian schoolboys cricket team.[17] At the time, he stood only 150 centimetres (4 ft 11 in) tall and wielded a sawn-off bat.[18] He lacked power, but impressed with his footwork and style.[18][19] Miller reasoned that, as he appeared destined to be short, a career as a jockey was more likely than one as a cricketer or footballer.[20][21][22]
Miller attended the selective Melbourne High School,[20] where Australian test captain Bill Woodfull was his mathematics teacher.[17] Miller was a mediocre student,[23] which disappointed Woodfull,[23] but Woodfull quickly noticed Miller's cricket skills.[24] Aged 14, Miller was selected for the school's first XI, scoring 44. His control and solidity prompted the spectators to call him The Unbowlable—Woodfull's own nickname.[25][26] In 1934, Miller failed all of his subjects, scoring zero in his final exam for Woodfull's geometry class, and was forced to repeat the year.[27][28]
In March 1936, Miller played for South Melbourne against Carlton, captained by Woodfull. Miller came to the crease at 6/32.[31] He guided his team to 141, putting on a stand of 65 with the last man and finishing with 61.[32][33] The crowd gave Miller a standing ovation, and newspapers him compared him to Ponsford and Alan Kippax.[34] The Carlton team presented him with a silver eggcup, "for sterling performance",[35] which Woodfull presented to Miller during an algebra class.[34]
Debuts in Sheffield Shield and Victorian Football League
Keith Miller | |||
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Personal information | |||
Original team(s) | Brighton | ||
Height | 185 cm (6 ft 1 in) | ||
Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | ||
Position(s) |
full forward | ||
Playing career1 | |||
Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
1940–42; 1946 | St Kilda | 50 (42) | |
Representative team honours | |||
Years | Team | Games (Goals) | |
1946 | Victoria | 1 | |
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1946. | |||
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com |
During 1936, Miller underwent a sudden growth spurt,[31] of 28 centimetres (11.0 in) in the year,[36] reaching 185 centimetres (6 ft 1 in) in height. This thwarted his career as a jockey.[17][21][33] With his increased height and weight, he began to play football with more physical aggression.[37] At the end of 1936, he completed year 10 and quit high school, taking a position as a clerk.[38]
For the 1937–38 cricket season, Miller transferred to the
During this period, Miller achieved more success as a footballer, following his brothers in joining the
Miller finally made his breakthrough in cricket in 1939–40, when he was selected to make his Sheffield Shield debut, against
In the Australian winter of 1940, Miller started his fourth season in the VFA. In a match against
War service
Miller's sporting career was interrupted by World War II. On 20 August 1940, he joined the Militia (army reserve), and was assigned to the 4th Reserve Motor Transport Company.[60][61] In late September, Miller began his training. A non-conformist, he had the first of many clashes with authority in November, when he was fined for "using insulting language to a superior officer".[60] Miller soon lived up to the traditional nickname of Dusty for anyone called Miller, owing to his tendency to be involved in fist fights and his rambunctious persona.[62]
During the summer of 1940–41, Miller was granted leave so that he could play interstate cricket. In a war-shortened season, Miller scored 140 runs at 28.00 and took his maiden first-class wicket.[62][63][64][65] The 1941 VFL season also went ahead. Miller played in defence and attack, depending on match conditions.[66] In 16 games, he kicked 28 goals,[67] including eight in one match.[66] He again showed his disrespect for authority and reputation, striking his boss Beames—who played for Melbourne—with a raised elbow at the start of a match. Miller came second in St Kilda's best and fairest for the season.[68]
Miller's season ended early when he was recalled to duty. He had continued disciplinary problems,[68] and left the Militia on 8 November 1941.[61] Miller and a friend then attempted to join the Royal Australian Navy. When the navy rejected his friend, Miller tore up his own paperwork, left the recruiting office, and walked around the corner to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) recruiting office, where he enlisted.[68][69][70]
Less than two months after the
Miller was invited to join a
By late 1943, Miller was based in Gloucestershire. One night, he threatened to punch his commanding officer, resulting in his being sentenced for insubordination to a three-week disciplinary course with hard labour.[95] In mid-November, he was posted to Ouston near Newcastle upon Tyne where he trained in the used of radar.[96] During his stay there, Miller sustained a back injury during a wrestling match: the injury was to cause him recurring and enduring problems, particularly diminishing his ability to bowl.[97][98]
In 1944, Miller was again selected for the RAAF team. In a match against the British Civil Defence Services at Lord's in July, Miller reached his century just as a V-1 flying bomb landed nearby.[94][99] In a match against an England XI, Miller scored 85 in 100 minutes.[100] He then took match figures of 6/28 against the West of England at Bristol.[101]
After ten months of training, Miller was offered a commission as a
While training, Miller flew
In March 1945, Miller was deployed to the RAF station at
Miller's wartime exploits were to give him a greater sense of perspective when he returned to the sports field. When asked many years later by Michael Parkinson, about pressure in cricket, Miller responded:[119][120] "Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse, playing cricket is not".[119][120]
Victory Tests
The end of the war prompted the belated start of the
Miller warmed up for the Second Victory Test by top-scoring for the RAAF against Lancashire and the RAF.[139] In the Test, played at Bramall Lane, Miller went wicketless and scored 17 in the first innings.[139][140][141][142] In the second innings, Miller bowled a fierce spell,[137] hitting Test world record holder Len Hutton and Cyril Washbrook on the arm and head respectively, provoking an angry crowd reaction.[142][143][144] At the time, Miller had a leisurely attitude towards bowling, so his success led to calls for him to start taking it seriously, instead of simply jogging in and releasing the ball.[144] Despite this, Australia lost the match.[144][145][146]
In the meantime, Miller earned the further ire of his CO by flying unauthorised leisure flights. Not wanting to fly tour flights over Germany, Miller lodged bogus reports saying that the Mosquitoes were malfunctioning, causing unnecessary maintenance work.[147] Thus, the CO ordered Miller to take his plane instead, which caught fire. With one functional engine, Miller came back to the air base and bellylanded.[113] The plane broke apart and caught fire, but Miller escaped physical injury and was playing sport an hour later.[113][148][149]
The next day, Miller headed to Lord's to play for the RAAF against the South of England. Chasing 208, Miller scored an unbeaten 78 in 95 minutes, but rain washed out the match.[137][150] In the first innings of Third Victory Test at Lord's,[151] when finally called upon to bowl, Miller measured out a run-up[152][153] and removed John Dewes, Donald Carr and Hutton, all bowled. He ended with 3/44.[152][153][154] Miller was rewarded with the new ball in the second innings. He removed Dewes, Edrich and Dick Pollard to end with 3/42.[155] This left Australia a target of 225. Miller saw Australia to the target, unbeaten on 71.[144][152][153][155][156] In the Fourth Test, again at Lord's, Miller scored 118 in the first innings,[152][157][158][159] before an unbeaten 25 in the second innings ensured a draw.[152][160] The tremendous public reception of the Victory Tests resulted in a fifth match being added to the schedule.[161]
In the meantime Japan had surrendered, and No. 169 Squadron was disbanded. Miller had spent around 550 hours in the air with the RAF, to which his RAAF unit had been seconded. He was awarded the
In the Fifth Victory Test, under overcast conditions against a swinging and seaming ball, Miller struck 14 from his first over and finished 77 not out, in a display that featured strong cutting and driving.[123][158][159] Australia could manage only 173, and England were on top.[162] Miller took one wicket with the ball but managed only four in the second innings as England won, to square the series 2–2.[163] Hassett wrote at the end of the series that "This is cricket as it should be... let's have no more talk of "war" in cricket".[164] Miller topped the batting averages for the series, with 443 runs at 63.28. His aggregate exceeded those of Hammond and Hutton, and he also took 10 wickets at 27.70.[164] Of Miller's batting, Hassett said that "as a strokeplayer he is second to none",[164][165][166] and his performance earned comparisons to Jack Gregory, who had a similar breakthrough after World War I.[159]
The last big match of the season was a one-off match at Lord's between England and "Dominions", a scratch team of players from the British Commonwealth. Miller managed 26 in the Dominions' first innings of 307,[167] before cutting loose in the second innings. After settling in, he hit Eric Hollies for two sixes, including one that hit the top of the roof.[21][166][168] The next day, he registered his century in 115 minutes, clouting another five balls over the boundary in the morning session. In one 35-minute passage of play, he and Learie Constantine added 91 runs, before Miller departed for 185, made in just 165 minutes.[167] The Dominions went on to win by 45 runs in a match described by Wisden as "one of the finest ever seen".[169] Commenting on Miller' innings, Robertson-Glasgow said "From the moment he takes guard he plays each ball just that much below its supposed merits that scratches a bowler's pride".[170] Miller had enjoyed his visit to the home of cricket. In eight innings at Lord's for the season, he had scored 568 runs at 94.68, with three centuries.[169]
The season ended with a few more matches against English counties. Miller struck aggressive half-centuries in wins against
Services tour of India
Miller, the vice-captain, almost missed the trip to India after turning up late for the voyage.
The team played
In the second match against India, Services were 2/250 in response to India's 386 when Miller came in and scored 82, including four sixes in five balls.[191][193][194][195] The match ended in a draw and Miller aggravating an injury.[194][196] Miller took 3/19 against South Zone in Madras, the Australians' only win in India. He failed with the bat in the third and final match against India, scoring two and seven, but he took 2/60 in the first innings as India took the series 1–0.[197] Overall, Miller had a disappointing series in the international matches, with 107 runs at 26.25 and four wickets at 40.50.[197] Australia's final match was in Colombo against an All Ceylon team. Miller scored 132 as Australia won by an innings.[196][197][198]
Services in Australia
Upon returning to Australia, Hassett's men were assigned to play a further six first-class matches against the state teams. The fixtures were meant to revive cricket and were also used as a lead-up to the international tour to New Zealand in March 1946.
Miller had another difficult time against
Test career
Test debut
At the end of the season, Miller was selected for the New Zealand tour, under the captaincy of Queensland's Bill Brown.[210][211] Miller started the tour well, top-scoring with 139 against Auckland.[211][212][213] Along with seven other debutants,[214] Miller made his test debut in the match against New Zealand at the Basin Reserve in Wellington, a match that was retrospectively accorded Test status in 1948.[215] On a sticky wicket, New Zealand won the toss and batted. Miller was not required to bowl in the first innings as O'Reilly and Ernie Toshack skittled the home side for just 42.[215][216] Australia made 8/199 with Miller scoring 30. He was allowed to take the new ball in the second innings,[217] taking 2/6 in six overs before a flare-up of his back injury forced him to be removed from the attack. Australia bowled their hosts out for 54, securing an innings victory.[211][218]
Despite the scare over his back complaint, Miller returned from New Zealand to play in the 1946 season, which turned out to be his last season in the VFL; St Kilda finished second-last.[219] Miller played with more aggression than during his pre-war years and his high leaping marks were a noted feature of a season that saw him chosen to represent Victoria against South Australia.[220] Miller thus became one of the few players to play at the highest levels of both cricket and Australian rules football.[220]
Miller was discharged from the RAAF on 26 June 1946,[220] and returned to his job at Vacuum Oil. Miller resented the fact that many of his colleagues had avoided the hazards of war and moved steadily up the ladder and regarded his job as demeaning.[221][222] Under such circumstances, Miller contemplated quitting Australian cricket and accepting a professional contract with Rawtenstall in the Lancashire League, valued at £1,000 per year,[223] for three seasons. With advertising and commercial commitments likely to triple this figure, playing in England would have been approximately ten times more lucrative than continuing in Australia.[221] Miller was worried that his impulsive style would be curtailed by the pressures of professionalism. At that time, the Board of Control's policy stipulated that any player that signed with a professional league in England could not represent Australia.[224] Miller's contract would see him in England until he was 30, effectively ending his career for Australia. Furthermore, it would have prevented him from playing Australian football during the winter.[225] Miller weighed it up and opted to sign the contract that tied him to Rawtenstall, his duties to start with the onset of the English season in April 1947.[226]
In the meantime, Miller had the upcoming Test series against England in 1946–47 to look forward to. He therefore approached his employers for two months leave so that he could travel to the United States to marry Wagner, which would allow him time to return in preparation for the international series. Vacuum Oil refused, so, with the comfort of job security in England, Miller resigned.[226][227]
Miller left Australia at the end of the football season in late August, amid press speculation that he might not return.[228] He was reunited in Boston with Wagner after more than three years of separation and they married on 21 September 1946. Miller and his new bride returned to Australia in November.[224][227] In the meantime, his contract with Rawtenstall became public knowledge and he was threatened with his Test career being terminated if he began playing for the English team.[224]
First Ashes series
Miller's season started amid ongoing speculation about whether he would fulfil his contract with Rawtenstall. Miller remained silent.[229] In a Shield match in front of Bradman at the Adelaide Oval, Miller struck form with 188 and 2/32 with the ball.[227][230][231] Wisden said Miller's innings was "one of the finest batting displays ever seen at Adelaide".[232] Bradman saw Miller as a top-order batsman and as the new ball partner for Lindwall. Although Miller was a reluctant bowler, Bradman felt that he was crucial to his strategy of attacking England's strong batting line-up with express pace.[233]
Miller made his Ashes debut in the
During that first Test, an incident occurred, coloured by Miller's wartime service, that soured his relationship with Bradman and his feelings towards Test cricket. Michael Parkinson described it as follows:
Keith Miller was deeply affected by the Second World War. It changed him ... In the first post-war Ashes Test ... England were caught on a sticky ... [and] Bill Edrich came in. He'd had a serious war and he survived and Miller thought, 'He's my old Services mate. The last thing he wants after five years' war is to be flattened by a cricket ball, so I eased up. Bradman came up to me and said, 'Don't slow down, Keith. Bowl quicker.' That remark put me off Test cricket. Never felt the same way about it after that.'[241]
In the Second Test in Sydney. Miller had a quiet match, scoring 40 and taking one wicket on a spin-friendly pitch as Australia secured another innings victory,[216][242][243][244][245] but showed he was in prime batting form when he returned to the Sheffield Shield. Playing against New South Wales, he hammered three sixes in one over and made 153 of a 271-run partnership with Merv Harvey in just over three hours, setting up an innings victory. Bill Ponsford said that it was the hardest hitting he had ever seen.[223][246][247] The Third Test was Miller's first in his home town. He had a mediocre game in a drawn match, scoring 33 and 34, and taking two wickets.[248]
Off the pitch, Miller privately decided that he would not honour his Rawtenstall contract.[249] He secretly accepted an offer to relocate to Sydney to work as a liquor salesman and play cricket.[249] Back in a good frame of mind for the Fourth Test in Adelaide, Miller took one wicket in each innings,[216] but he shone with the bat. After England had made 460, Miller came in at 3/207, and was 23 not out by the close of the second day.[250] He hit the first ball of the next day for six,[251] and accumulated 67 runs in the opening 71 minutes, to reach his maiden Test century. The Englishmen utilised leg theory to prevent easy scoring, but as the tail began to be dismissed, Miller accelerated, launching drives into the crowd, despite the presence of four men on the fence. Miller ended unbeaten on 141 but the match petered out into a high-scoring draw.[250][252] Before the last Test, Miller played for Victoria against England, taking 4/65.[253]
The Fifth Test. saw Miller take a wicket in each innings. Australia were left a target of 214 runs on a wearing wicket. Wright beat Miller with three consecutive leg breaks, but Miller survived and struck consecutive boundaries on the way to reaching the target.[254][255][256][257] Australia had taken the series 3–0; Miller scored 384 runs at 76.80 and took 16 wickets at 20.88, which placed him second in both the batting and bowling averages, to Bradman and Lindwall respectively.[254] Nevertheless, Miller had become disillusioned with Bradman's ruthless mentality. Miller was impulsive and cared little for records or ruthlessly dominating his opponents, preferring to play in a flamboyant manner in close contests.[258][259]
For the 1947–48 Australian season, Miller transferred to New South Wales (NSW), for whom he played the remainder of his Sheffield Shield career. He also represented the New South Wales interstate football team at the 1947 Hobart Carnival, as vice captain.[260] This made him one of the few players to play both football and cricket for two states.[17]
Miller had a light workload in the 1947–48 home Test series against India,[261] who were on their first tour to Australia.[262] India were well beaten, losing 4–0, three of the four defeats by an innings.[263] Miller was required to bat just once in each Test, accumulating 185 runs at 37.00, including two half-centuries,[216] while the batsmen ahead of him plundered the bowling.[261] His bowling duties were also light; his 72 overs yielded nine wickets at 24.78.[216] In both his fifties, Miller featured in century partnerships with his partners, respectively Bradman and Hassett in the First and Fourth test respectively.[264] His 58 in the First Test at Brisbane featured many big hits.[265]
Invincibles tour
In a later match, against Essex, Miller was involved in a famous incident that is frequently cited when his character is discussed; it also spotlighted his differences with Bradman. On a day when the Australians set a world-record of 721 runs in a single day,[275][276] Miller came to the crease with his side already dominating, with the score 2/364. He deliberately allowed himself to be bowled first ball, much to Bradman's displeasure, in a protest against the one-sided nature of the contest.[277][278]
Australia then took on
Following another good all-round performance against Hampshire, top-scoring in the first innings and taking 5/25 in the second,[282][283] Miller went into the First Test (at Trent Bridge) in fine form. On the first morning, Miller bowled Hutton and Compton on his way to 3/38, helping Australia dismiss England cheaply and seize the initiative. Miller scored a duck, but Australia took a 344-run lead on the first innings.[284][285][286] In the second innings, he resumed his battle with Hutton and Compton, delivering five bouncers in the last over of the day.[284] The batsmen survived, but Miller received a hostile reaction from the crowd.[287] The next day, he bowled Hutton for 74 and then bounced Compton, causing him to fall onto his stumps for 184.[285][288] Australia won by eight wickets,[289] Miller ending with 4/125 for the second innings and 7/163 for the match.[216][290]
Miller was unfit to bowl during the Second Test at Lord's.[291] During England's first innings, Bradman threw Miller the ball, hoping that he would reverse his decision not to bowl. Miller refused and returned the ball, citing his back. Miller's action generated news headlines, journalists believing that he had disobeyed Bradman.[144][292] His batting ability, however, was such that he played as a specialist batsman even when he was unable to bowl due to injury, such as during the Second Test.[293] Miller wanted to play purely as a batsman, feeling that the workload of bowling would hinder his run-scoring. However, Bradman was intent on going through the tour undefeated, and utilised his bowling options to the full, to maximise the Australians’ chances of winning. Lindwall and Miller were the first-choice pace duo, regarded as one of the greatest speed pairings in the history of cricket, whereas the latter was just one of many accomplished batsmen in the team. As a result, the Australian skipper valued Miller more as an opening bowler.[294] He ended the Tests with 184 runs at 26.28 and 13 wickets at 23.15 from 138.1 overs and took eight catches.[216][295]
As a batsman, Miller was out for four in the first innings, not offering a shot to an inswinger.[292] In the second innings, Miller's first ball was a hat-trick ball from English captain Norman Yardley; he survived a loud leg before wicket appeal and then hit a six into the grandstand, on his way to 74.[296] Australia declared at 7/460, 595 runs ahead.[297] Miller took three catches as Australia won by 409 runs.[298][299]
After the Lord's Test, Miller enjoyed a night out and returned to the team hotel after daybreak the next morning.
The efforts of Miller and Lindwall against Hutton had led the English selectors to drop the Yorkshireman for the Third Test. The Australians were surprised by the move and thought that it was a bad move by their opponents.[301][302] Miller had a quiet Third Test at Old Trafford, taking one wicket and scoring 31 as the match ended in a draw.[216] In a rain-shortened match, Miller again earned the ire of the crowd, after aiming a series of bouncers at Edrich, in apparent retaliation to the Englishman's bouncing of Lindwall.[303][304] He struck Edrich on the body before Bradman ordered him to stop.[303][305]
When fit, Miller opened the Test bowling with Lindwall, and the pair bowled in short and fiery bursts with the new ball. The English cricket authorities had agreed to make a new ball available every 55 overs. The pre-existing rule stipulated that a replacement ball would be available every 200 runs, which usually took much more time to accumulate. This played directly into the hands of the Australians with their vastly stronger pace attack, as a new ball is ideal for fast bowling. Bradman thus wanted to preserve his two first-choice bowlers for a fresh attack every 55 overs.
The teams moved to
The Australians moved onto the next match against Derbyshire, where Miller scored a half-century and took 3/31 in an innings victory.[316] Against Glamorgan, Miller took two wickets before striking a hard-hitting 84 with five sixes. He struck one of the sixes with one hand, sending it 20 rows into the crowd.[320][321] In a match against Lancashire,[320] Jack Ikin had reached 99 despite being repeatedly hit. Miller refused to bowl to Ikin, saying that he felt the batsman deserved a century. Lindwall was given the ball and promptly removed Ikin for 99.[322]
The teams proceeded to The Oval for the Fifth Test. After England elected to bat,[322] Miller bowled John Dewes with his second ball and then removed Jack Crapp without scoring, leaving England at 4/23.[323] Miller ended with 2/5 as Lindwall (6/20) cut down the home team for 52. In his last Test innings for the summer, Miller scored five.[324] Australia led by 337 on the first innings and Miller dismissed Hutton and Crapp to end with 2/22 as Australia won by an innings and took a 4–0 series win.[295][325] Miller ended the Tests with 184 runs at 26.28 and 13 wickets at 23.15. He took eight catches.[216][295]
In a match against the
After the tour, Bradman was full of praise for Miller, though somewhat critical of his aggressive batting:
One of the most volatile cricketers of any age. Long, rangy, athletic type—drove the ball with tremendous power—tried to hit sixes with abandon. Many of them would have been prodigious. Would have been a far better player had he curbed this propensity and showed more judgement in his hitting. Dangerous bowler with the new ball, swinging it both ways not much short of [Ray] Lindwall's speed. [...] In 1948 he was the best slip field in the world. Altogether, a crowd-pleasing personality ... whose limitations were caused mainly by his own failure to concentrate.
— Don Bradman, [328]
Miller totalled 1,088 runs for the tour at an average of 47.30, only the eighth highest in the squad. He took 56 wickets at 17.58 and held onto 20 catches.[307][329]
Bradman criticised Miller's hitting of sixes (26),[266] feeling that his mercurial all rounder lacked restraint and concentration.[307] In contrast, Fingleton praised Miller's attitude to cricket, saying "He is never one to accept runs when they are there for the taking ... I acknowledge myself the supreme believer in Miller as a cricketer. He had given me joy in the game approached by others."[313] With respect to his persistent bouncing of Hutton and Compton, Fingleton said that it was up to England to develop bowlers of express pace—which they lacked at the time—to retaliate against or deter the Australians from pursuing such tactics.[330] Miller's persistent disagreements with Bradman soon caught up with him, despite the latter's retirement after the tour. During Bradman's testimonial match, Miller bowled three consecutive bouncers at his retired captain, dismissing him with the last of these and drawing an angry look. Bradman was one of three members of the national selection panel, and Miller was dropped for the next series against South Africa in 1949–50. Although Bradman denied voting for the omission, most of the players in the team did not believe this.[331]
Omission for South Africa
After returning to Australia, Miller played against Bradman in a testimonial match in 1948–49. Miller bowled three consecutive bouncers at Bradman, dismissing him with the last of the short-pitched deliveries for 53.[332][333][334] Bradman was angered by Miller's bowling.[333][334] One week later, the squad to tour South Africa in the following season was announced, and Miller was omitted,[83][334] despite being ranked as the best all rounder in the world.[335] During the Australian season, which was a purely domestic one, he had scored 400 runs at 33.33 and taken 11 wickets at 24.09.[83][335] He scored one century against Queensland during the season, as well as a 99 against Victoria at the SCG.[336] The surprise omission led to much conjecturing about the reasoning.[334][337] One was that Miller had stated during the season that he did not want to bowl, so the selectors only considered his batting performances.[336] Another was that Miller's bouncing of Bradman had provoked his former captain into voting against him at the selection table.[337] Rumours circulated that new captain Lindsay Hassett did not want Miller on the tour because he was undisciplined, which Hassett denied.[338] Another was that Jack Ryder, the Victorian selector and former Australian captain, had voted against Miller in retaliation for his move to New South Wales.[339] Both Bradman and Chappie Dwyer claimed they voted for Miller, leading Miller to quip "somebody's telling lies", as there were only three on the selection panel.[337]
The media stridently criticised Miller's omission,[340] as did former players such as Stan McCabe and Alan Kippax.[341] During the off season, he worked as a journalist and played baseball,[342] but declined a trial with a Major League Baseball club, the Boston Red Sox.[343] Miller captained New South Wales at the start of the 1949–50 season as his colleagues went to South Africa, his first leadership experience in the Sheffield Shield.[343] He scored 80 and took six wickets in the first match against Queensland. After another victory over Western Australia,[344] he received a request from the Australian Board of Control. At the request of captain Hassett, Miller was asked to tour South Africa as cover for Johnston, who had been injured in a car crash.[337][345][346][347] Miller accepted the offer and resigned himself to bowling heavily.[348][349] Miller almost missed the trip after arriving late at the dock in Perth after a drunken night. The next boat to South Africa would not have departed for several weeks.[350] Despite his recall, there remained tension over his initial omission, as Dwyer was the team manager.[351]
Miller was given the responsibility of batting in the
Ashes in Australia
Miller started the 1950–51 season with an unbeaten 201 in a Shield match against Queensland. At 438 minutes, it was his longest first-class innings.[364][365] In the return match, he scored 138 not out in just 118 minutes in a successful run-chase, a sharp contrast to his double-century.[366][367] In a tour match against the visiting England team at the SCG before the Test series, Miller scored 214, having been 99 not out at stumps on the previous day.[368][369] He hit 15 fours and three sixes.[370] He made ducks in consecutive matches leading into the First Test in Brisbane.[371] Miller scored 15 and eight on a rain-affected pitch,[372] and took match figures of 3/50 in an Australian victory, dismissing Dewes twice.[216][373][374] He had another quiet match in the Second Test, scoring 18 and 14 and taking a match total of 2/55.[216][375] After struggling in the first two Tests, Miller rediscovered his batting form with 98 against the tourists for New South Wales.[376][377][378]
England had started the Third Test at Sydney strongly. Australia took its first wicket when Miller caught Washbrook from Johnson with a horizontal diving catch at slip.
West Indies tour Australia
The 1951–52 Australian season saw the first tour by a
Miller had a lean Third Test, taking only one wicket and scoring four and 35,[216] as Australia lost by six wickets.[403] In the Fourth Test at the MCG, the West Indies batted first and Miller removed both openers in the first hour, before returning to end with 5/60 as the tourists were bowled out for 272. He then scored 47 as Australia managed only 216. He took 2/49, but only scored two in Australia's run-chase of 259. The home team won by one wicket.[216][404] In the Fifth Test, Miller took 5/26 in the first innings with another concentrated display of short-pitched bowling,[405] and then scored 69 in the second innings. He took two further wickets in the second innings as Australia fell short of their target.[216] Miller ended the series as the leading bowler, with 20 wickets at 19.90. He was second in the batting, with 362 runs at 40.22.[406] Throughout the series, Miller and Lindwall were repeatedly successful with their concerted bouncer tactics, which were heavily criticised.[407]
After the Test series ended, Miller captained a Commonwealth XI that played against a touring England team in Colombo, Ceylon. England had been on a tour of the Indian subcontinent. Miller scored 106 as the Commonwealth compiled 517. Miller took three wickets in the first innings and led his team to a victory by an innings and 259 runs.[408]
Captain of New South Wales
At the start of the 1952–53 season, the
In his first match as leader, Miller scored 109 against Queensland. Taking 260 minutes, it was the slowest century of his career.
Miller started the Test series against South Africa poorly. Suffering from a throat infection,[419] he scored three in both innings and took 1/46 in an Australian victory.[420] In the Second Test at the MCG, Miller performed consistently with bat and ball, taking 4/62 and 3/51 and scoring 52 and 31. In the course of the match, he passed the all-round double of 1000 Test runs and 100 Test wickets when he dismissed John Waite in the second innings, but this was not enough to prevent defeat.[420][421] In the Third Test, Miller scored 55, putting on 168 with Harvey,[422] and took 3/48 and 2/33 in an innings victory.[216][419] Australia's fortunes took a turn for the worse in the Fourth Test in Adelaide. Miller scored nine and injured his back after two overs with the ball. Lindwall also broke down.[419] Without their spearheads, Australia were unable to bowl out the South Africans and match was drawn.[422][423] Both were ruled out of the Fifth Test and the South Africans levelled the series despite conceding 520 runs during the first innings. Australia's bowlers were unable to stop the South African batsmen without their new ball pair.[422][423][424]
1953 Ashes tour
Australia proceeded to the 1953 Ashes tour.[425] During a stopover at Naples, Miller was locked inside after entering a private opera rehearsal without authorisation, but managed to escape and rejoin the boat as it was about to leave.[425] During his career, several cricket books were published under Miller's name, and he was embroiled in further controversy when one ghost-written tome, which was printed as the team left for England, criticised his captain Hassett as being too cautious.[426][427][428]
The burden on Miller and Lindwall increased when Johnston broke down in an early tour game.[307] Miller was wicketless against Worcestershire, but succeeded with the bat, scoring an unbeaten 220 in just over six hours.[429][430] He then scored 159 not out against Yorkshire.[429][431] At this point, Miller had scored 421 runs in the week of May, and the media began to speculate that he could score 1000 runs in one month, something that had been done on a tour only by Bradman.[431][432]
Miller's love of
Australia travelled to Bramall Lane under the captaincy of Miller. Captain Hassett and his deputy Morris were rested and stayed in London with the team manager. After the first day's play, he organised a party for that lasted until the next afternoon—the rest day. He woke up with a hangover the next day just minutes before the start of play. Improvising, Miller arrived at the ground in a hearse.[440] When it was Australia's turn to bat, Miller was the last man to be dismissed, having scored 86 despite his hangover.[441]
The Test series moved to Lord's. Miller resumed bowling, sending down 42 overs and taking a total of 1/74. He managed 25 in the first innings, but promoted to number three in the second innings, he batted patiently to reach stumps before reaching his first Test century on English soil the following morning,[216][442] but England held on for a draw.[443] More than half of the Third Test at Old Trafford was washed out, resulting in another draw. Miller took 1/38 bowling fast off breaks and scored 17 and six.[216][443] Australia then played Middlesex at Lord's, where Miller scored a hard-hitting 71.[444]
Australia elected to field on a wet wicket in the Fourth Test at Headingley. Miller dismissed Edrich and Graveney and ended with 2/39 from 38 overs as England were bowled out for 167.[216][445] Miller made only five in the first innings. In the second innings, Miller and Lindwall launched a short-pitched barrage and dismissed Watson and Simpson in consecutive balls. England were 5/177 a stumps on day four, leading by 78.[446][447] The pacemen were booed from the field.[448][449] The next day, Miller dismissed Evans early, before Trevor Bailey began his resistance.[439][448] Frustrated by Bailey's defensive style and time-wasting, Miller lost his cool and aimed a beamer straight at Bailey's head, further angering the crowd.[448] Miller ended with 4/63 from a long spell of 47 overs.[450] England held on for another draw after more time-wasting by Bailey. The teams headed for the Fifth Test at The Oval tied 0–0.[451] Miller's last Test performance was his least productive; he scored one and a duck and took a total of 2/89. England won the match and regained the Ashes.[216][452] Miller's returns were below his career standards, with 223 runs at 24.77 and 10 wickets at 30.30. He took two catches.[216][453]
Miller scored 67 against the Gentlemen of England at Lord's and then played against the Combined Services at Kingston. He reached his century before lunch and then proceeded to 262 not out with 24 boundaries. This included a 377-run fourth-wicket stand by Jim de Courcy in only 205 minutes, in particular targeting Fred Trueman's bowling.[454][455] He then took 3/17 with the ball.[456] He finished the English summer with 1,433 runs at 51.17, the second highest average behind Harvey among batsmen with over 200 runs.[456] He was the only Australian to hit two double centuries and also took 45 wickets at 22.51.[456] For his efforts that summer, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack named him one of its Five Cricketers of the Year.[457]
Overlooked for Test captaincy
Miller returned to Australia and led New South Wales to the Sheffield Shield title in 1953–54.[458][459] He topped the Australian first-class batting averages with 71.10, but had his poorest season with the ball, taking only 16 wickets at 38.75.[460] The season was purely domestic with no touring side and therefore no Test matches.[461] The season was also a transition point in Australian cricket, as Hassett retired upon return to Australia.[462] Initially, Morris and Miller were the two frontrunners for the captaincy. Miller was the state captain, but Morris was the vice-captain of the Test team ahead of Miller.[463][464] At the time, Johnson had been dropped from the Australian team, but inherited the Victorian captaincy from Hassett, who accused him of not trying. Hassett told Johnson that he could become Test captain if he regained his form and his Test position.[462][465] As the outgoing captain, Hassett was believed to have an influence over the selection of his successor. Miller had also criticised Hassett in his book,[462] and there was talk that Hassett was upset about Miller's departure from South Melbourne and Victoria.[435] Johnson returned to form with 45 wickets at 22.75 for the season.[466][467]
England toured Australia in the 1954–55 season.[468] Johnson was selected to lead an Australian XI in a tour match against the Englishmen before the Tests, an indication of the selectors' inclination. He took 6/66 in England's only innings.[469][470][471] The build-up featured a media war, Melbourne newspapers stumping for Johnson and the Sydney journalists trumpeting Miller.[472] Miller warmed up for the Tests with 86 for New South Wales against England. On 18 November, the Australian Board of Control selected Johnson as captain, with Morris as his deputy.[469][470] Miller's irreverent nature was cited as a possible reason for the board's selection. Johnson was regarded as a superior diplomat;[473][474] Miller had a reputation for turning up late and being undisciplined.[475] Miller had frequently been in dispute with Bradman, who was a member of the board and the chairman of selectors.[435][476] Miller had also questioned where revenue that the board collected from ticket sales was being used.[435] Others claimed that Johnson was appointed because he was part of the establishment; his father Bill was a former Australian selector.[477] The decision was bitterly criticised by the Sydney press.
There is strong feeling amongst cricket enthusiasts that horse trading on a state basis rather than objective evaluation of cricket skills has dominated selectors discussions. The operating principle seems to have been "you look after my man and we'll look after yours."
— The Daily Telegraph editorial, [478]
Miller scored 49 in the First Test at Brisbane as Australia amassed 8/601, before dismissing Simpson and Hutton as England fell to an innings defeat.[216][469][477][479] A knee injury forced Miller to miss the Second Test at the SCG, which England won.[477][480][481] Miller returned for the Third Test at the MCG, but was initially unavailable to bowl due to lingering knee problems.[482] Upon receiving an inquiry about the health of his knee before the match by Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies, Miller agreed to try to bowl for a short period and lift his team.[483][484] England elected to bat and Miller removed Hutton, Edrich and Compton with his outswinger. He ended up bowling for the entire first session of play and had 3/5 at lunch from nine overs, before finishing at 3/14. England were bowled out for 191.[216][483][485] Miller struggled with the bat, scoring six and seven as Frank Tyson's pace saw England inflict a second successive defeat on Australia.[486][487] Australia needed to win the Fourth Test in Adelaide to keep the series alive. Miller scored 44 and 14 as Australia were bowled out in the second innings to leave England with 94 for victory. Miller made a late burst, removing Edrich, Hutton and Colin Cowdrey in consecutive overs to leave England at 3/18.[488] He then took a difficult catch from Johnston to dismiss Peter May.[489] England were then 4/49 but hung on to win by five wickets and secure the Ashes.[490][491][492] It was the first time that Australia had lost three consecutive Tests since the Bodyline series of 1932–33.[493] Miller made 19 and 28 in the rain-affected draw in the Fifth Test. He ended the series with 167 runs at 23.86, his lowest ever at international level,[216][494] and took 10 wickets at 24.30.[495]
He had more success as domestic level. New South Wales beat Victoria in two days at the SCG to win the Sheffield Shield; Miller taking five wickets in the second innings.[496] He also led his state in a 45-run win over the tourists, their only defeat apart from the First Test.[491] The match was marked by a quickfire 71 in 57 minutes and his team's attacking strategy.[497][498]
West Indies tour
After leading his state to another Sheffield Shield title and a win over England,[498] Miller replaced Morris as the vice-captain for the tour of the West Indies that started in early 1955.[496][499] Australia was looking for its first series win against any team in three years, having lost two consecutive series to England.[493][500] Australia batted first in the opening Test at Sabina Park in Jamaica.[501] Miller came to the wicket at 2/137 and put on a 224-run partnership with Harvey. Both ended with centuries and Miller scored his highest Test score of 147, striking 15 fours.[502][503] When Valentine and Ramadhin had conceded 100 runs, he respectively shook their hands.[503][504] Australia finished at 9/515. Johnson had been injured when hit in the foot by a yorker so Miller was left in charge of the team on the field with Australia one bowler short.[503][504] Miller attempted to unsettle the batsmen by placing many men close to the bat in an attempt to insult their batting capabilities. He took the new ball at 5/239 and the hosts collapsed to be all out for 259.[505] Miller had taken 2/36,[216] and enforced the follow-on, which was questioned as paceman Ron Archer had broken down. With Australia two bowlers short, the West Indies moved to 1/114. When Weekes arrived at the crease, Miller unsettled him with delaying tactics, and he was out for one.[505] He then placed two silly points and two silly mid-ons in an attempt to unsettle Walcott, who fell to Lindwall soon after. Miller then took two wickets and the hosts had lost three wickets in as many overs. The West Indies were bowled out and Australia won by nine wickets.[216][506] Miller had taken 3/62 in the second innings.[216]
Johnson resumed the leadership on the field in the Second Test at
Miller declined the offer and stopped.[511][514] The match resumed the next day and the West Indies were eventually bowled out 158 behind. Miller had been punished by the batsmen, taking 2/113 from 22 overs.[216] Miller scored 10 and took 1/66 in the second innings as the match ended in a high-scoring draw.[515] Miller then took 6/107 in the first innings of the Fifth Test in Jamaica. He removed John Holt, Walcott and Smith, before taking three tail-end wickets as the home team were bowled out for 357. When Australia batted, Miller arrived at the crease to join Harvey with the score at 3/302. He added his third century of the series and ended with 109 as Australia reached 8/758. He took 2/58 in the second innings as Australia completed a 3–0 win.[516][517] It was Miller's most statistically successful series, with 439 runs at 73.17 and the 20 wickets at 32.05 made him the equal leading wicket-taker along with Lindwall.[216][518][519]
Final domestic season
Miller started the 1955–56 season, which was purely domestic,[493] with 164 against Queensland in Brisbane. On the final day, Miller set the hosts 275 for victory in three hours. He lengthened the innings break by seven minutes, by remonstrating with officials to pause the match for the running of the Melbourne Cup. They agreed and the match was stopped for 13 minutes for the race.[520] Queensland lost seven wickets but held on for a draw, aided by the 20 minutes lost by Miller's love of horseracing.[521]
The next match was against South Australia in Sydney. New South Wales had declared at 8/215 and the visitors were 0/2 at stumps on the first day. Miller's wife gave birth to their fourth child, and Miller was drinking into the next morning. He then arrived at the SCG, having forgotten to pick up teammate
In January 1956, Miller injured his back in a match against Queensland.[527] He suffered spasms that forced him to miss the rest of the season. He had scored 403 runs at 80.60 and taken 19 wickets at 14.94.[528] New South Wales again won the Sheffield Shield.[527][529]
Final Ashes tour
Miller was selected for the 1956 Ashes tour,[530][531] but could not bowl for a month because of a back injury from the first match.[532] Miller captained the Australians against Leicester. Coming in at 3/175, Miller made his highest first-class score of 281 not out, striking 35 fours in six and a half hours.[532] A tougher fight awaited against Surrey at The Oval, who had England's Test spin combination of Laker and Tony Lock. Miller came in at 3/124 and struggled, scoring 18 runs in his first 120 minutes, his slowest two hours of scoring in his career.[533] As his partners continued to fall Miller ended unbeaten on 57 as Australia were bowled out for 259; Laker taking all ten wickets. Australia lost by ten wickets, its first loss to a county since 1912.[533] As a result, sections of the Australian media began campaigning for Miller to replace Johnson as captain.[534][535]
By the First Test at Trent Bridge, Miller was shouldering most of the bowling load. He sent down 52 overs in a rain-affected match, taking match figures of 6/127. He struggled with the bat, making a duck and four.[536] The teams headed to Lord's where Miller had to carry the pace attack without the injured Davidson and Lindwall. Crawford and Ken Mackay were called in to make their debut and support Miller with the pace duties.[537] Australia batted first and Miller managed 28. Australia managed only 285 and Crawford injured himself, exacerbating the burden on Miller. Miller had Peter Richardson and then bowled Tom Graveney with an outswinger. England were 2/32 and their captain Peter May received an inswinger from Miller first ball, which he inside edged onto his stumps, but the bail was not dislodged.[538] The next day, Miller beat May four times and then had Watson caught in the gully in his third over. He then removed Bailey and Trueman. Miller's 5/72 was largely responsible for England falling for 171.[216][538] Australia was in difficulty at 3/69 when Miller came to bat, hitting a counterattacking 30. Australia set England 371 to win. Miller removed Graveney at the start of the run chase.[539] Resuming the next morning, he bowled Watson, and had May and Evans both caught behind. He bowled Johnny Wardle and took his only ten-wicket match haul in Tests. Australia won by 185 runs and Miller had bowled 70.1 overs for the match.[216][540] His knee had taken a heavy toll and Miller was given an extended break had to play purely as a batsman in the Third Test at Headingley.[541] Australia were caught on a wet wicket in response to England's 325,[542] and Miller top-scored with 41 and Australia were forced to follow on.[543] He had attempted to keep Laker and Lock at bay with his pads.[544] In the second innings, Miller fell for 26 to Laker. Australia lost by an innings,[545] for the first time in a Test in 18 years.[493]
The Australian press attacked the team, and called for changes,[546] including the omission of the captain, Johnson.[546][547][548] Johnson, Miller and Gil Langley were the tour selectors. Langley and Miller were willing to omit Johnson only if the captain volunteered to stand aside. Johnson did not volunteer, so the others did not discuss the topic.[546][549][550] Miller and Johnson had both been appointed as Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1956 New Year Honours,[551] and between the Tests they attended their formal investiture.[546]
The curator at Old Trafford had been ordered to prepare a dusty, spinning pitch for the Fourth Test.[552] A win for England would see them retain the Ashes.[553] Miller bowled 21 wicketless overs as England amassed 459. Miller was out for six and a duck and fell twice to Laker, who took a world record 19 wickets as Australia lost by an innings.[554] Wisden reported that the Australians were said "to be extremely bitter over the condition of the pitch".[555]
Miller then took 5/84 against Surrey, before leading the team against Warwickshire. He had received death threats in the lead-up to the game, ordering him to lose. He scored 46 not out and took 2/13 as Australia won by an innings.[556] He then took 5/29 in the second innings against Lancashire and made 50 and took match figures of 5/78 against Essex.[556]
On the eve of the Fifth Test at The Oval, Miller announced that the tour would be his last, so that he would retire from cricket after the tour of the Indian subcontinent on the return voyage. In his final Test on English soil, he took 4/91 in the first innings. Miller came in to bat at 5/47 and helped Australia recover to 202, top-scoring with 61.[557] He took another one wicket in the second innings and was unbeaten on seven when stumps were drawn in the second innings. The series ended 1–2.[558] He ended the series with 203 runs at 22.55 and topped the bowling with 21 wickets at 22.23.[216][559] He topped the first-class bowling for the Australians with 50 wickets at 19.60.[560]
Australia played Pakistan at Karachi in the first Test between the two countries on a matting pitch, rather than the more familiar grass pitch.[561] Miller top-scored in the first innings with 21, as Australia fell for 80.[560] He took 2/40 and then scored 11 in the second innings as Australia fell to defeat.[562] It was the last Test of his career, as his knee injury deteriorated to the point that he could not play in the three Tests against India, and retired upon his return to Australia.[562]
Style and personality
Miller combined classy strokeplay with big hitting, his front foot play especially devastating. He had a rifle like straight drive, played pull and sweep shots with a minimum of effort and was able to cut elegantly. He combined this elegance with unorthodoxy, hitting two
As a bowler, Miller had a classically high arm action, moving the ball sharply either way and able to make the ball rise from a good length. His action caused opposition batsmen to perceive that his deliveries were gaining pace after pitching.
Miller and Lindwall formed an opening partnership that was regarded as one of the greatest of all time.
Miller often required a contest to retain interest in the game. He deplored Bradman's ruthless attitude towards annihilating the opposition and sometimes refused to try when Australia was in an unassailable position. At
Miller never captained Australia in a Test, as his attitude to the game tended to alarm the authorities. About Miller, Ashley Mallett wrote, "He loved tradition, but hated convention. His unstructured way of playing and living would be anathema to cricketers now... He played as he fought the war, by impulse and mood."[2] He sometimes set his field by saying to his players: "scatter".[465][523] On another occasion, he is reported turned to his players, after being told that NSW was taking the field with one player too many, and asked for one player to volunteer to "piss off".[465][523]
A larger than life character, Miller is the subject of many stories, often
One night, following a duel with
Later life
After retirement, Miller remained in the public eye, augmented by persistent "unsubstantiated rumours of an affair with Princess Margaret".[7] He made a living as a journalist and columnist, employed by the Daily Express as a "special cricket writer" for twenty years.[565][566] As during his career, Miller was a proponent of attacking and bright play. He praised the aggressive leadership of his protégé Richie Benaud but criticised the style of play pursued by Australia under Benaud's successors Bob Simpson and Bill Lawry.[567] In the mid-1980s, when Australia was struggling, Miller called for the removal of Allan Border, an obdurate and defensive batsman, from the captaincy.[568]
He later worked for Vernons Pools, owned by the millionaire horseracing entrepreneur, Robert Sangster.[565] Miller "was happiest at the cricket or at the races".[7] He also worked as the head of a lobby group in promoting Australian rules football in his adopted New South Wales in the 1980s. At the time, the VFL was the dominant league and there were no top-flight teams in his adopted state or Queensland.[569]
Miller's later life was plagued by ill health. In November 1991, he was hospitalised with a stroke, and soon after fell over and broke his hip, necessitating two further operations. He had skin cancer, caused by his insistence on always displaying his mop of hair and not wearing a hat. He accepted these vicissitudes equably. "Some grieved to see him reduced, but not him; these were life's deliveries. He knew only that one would get him out eventually." He had an earlobe removed. The cancer also attacked his legs, and coupled with his hip injury, severely curtailed his mobility, forcing him to use walking frames and wheelchairs.[2][570] Asked at 75 about death, he said: "Never think about it. No regrets. I've had a hell of a good life. Been damned lucky."[2]
Despite his illnesses, he continued to travel to England in the 1990s to watch cricket and meet up with Compton, Edrich and other war and cricket colleagues on an annual basis, although he became increasingly isolated as he outlasted his friends, both English and Australian.[571] On 1 January 2001, Miller was awarded the Centenary Medal for "service to Australian society through the sport of cricket".[572]
In late 2002, Miller divorced his wife Peg,[573] with whom he had four sons. He did so to marry his long-term mistress Marie Challman, with whom he had been living since 1999. Challman was a hospital receptionist and Miller reasoned that he would receive more effective medical treatment by moving to Melbourne to live with her, as his specialist doctors also lived there.[574] He had other long-term mistresses, including an Australian beauty queen with whom he was photographed in public.[575] During his later years, his illness contributed to what his family felt was a deteriorating attitude and he fell out with his sons, but they were reconciled shortly before his death.[576]
Miller died on 11 October 2004 after being in persistent poor health.
Legacy and statistical analysis
Miller's achievements were recognised by a host of awards during his lifetime and posthumously. Miller was one of the ten inaugural inductees into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 1996.[579] In 2000, he was named in the Australian Cricket Board Team of the Century as its vice-captain.[580] In January 2009, Miller was announced as one of the inaugural inductees in the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame, having previously been included in the Federation of International Cricketers' Associations (FICA) Hall of Fame.[581] ESPN writer Steven Lynch wrote that Miller "was more than a cricketer ... he embodied the idea that there was more to life than cricket".[7]
He is also one of only four Australian cricketers, (the others being Bradman,
Miller's abilities as an all-rounder led to enormous success as both batsman and bowler. The
Miller's statistics are an inexact measure of his worth to the side. Many of the Australia teams he played in featured very strong batting line-ups, restricting his opportunities as a middle-order player.
Test match performance
Batting[590] | Bowling[591] | ||||||||
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Opposition | Matches | Runs | Average | High Score | 100 / 50 | Runs | Wickets | Average | Best (Inns) |
England | 29 | 1,511 | 33.57 | 145* | 3/6 | 1,949 | 87 | 22.40 | 7/60 |
India | 5 | 185 | 37.00 | 67 | 0/2 | 223 | 9 | 24.77 | 2/25 |
New Zealand | 1 | 30 | 30.00 | 30 | 0/0 | 6 | 2 | 3.00 | 2/6 |
Pakistan | 1 | 32 | 16.00 | 21 | 0/0 | 58 | 2 | 29.00 | 2/40 |
South Africa | 9 | 399 | 33.25 | 84 | 0/4 | 631 | 30 | 21.03 | 5/40 |
West Indies | 10 | 801 | 53.40 | 147 | 4/1 | 1,039 | 40 | 25.97 | 6/107 |
Overall | 55 | 2,958 | 36.97 | 147 | 7/13 | 3,906 | 170 | 22.97 | 7/60 |
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- ^ "Keith Ross Miller, MBE (1919–2004)". Australian War Memorial. Archived from the original on 19 September 2008. Retrieved 5 February 2009.
- ^ Brett, Oliver (11 October 2004). "Australia's greatest all-rounder". BBC. Retrieved 2 February 2009.
By the time Miller had retired after 55 tests, he had the finest all-round record in cricket history, with statistics that were only beaten in later eras. The second man, Wilfred Rhodes, was 663 runs and 43 wickets behind him
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- ^ Perry, p. 46.
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- ^ Main, p. 269.
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- ^ a b c Coleman, p. 478.
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