Famous Cricketers No 70 - Keith Miller

c W.P.Dunn b M.U.Herbert 24 270 11 4 23 1 G.T.Kessey b 188 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Sheffield Shield 2 4 0 107 80 26.75 - 1 2 Career 97 143 15 6247 206* 48.80 17 29 66 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Strike RunR Sheffield Shield (8-b) 51.4 10 121 8 3-25 15.12 - - 51.50 29.36 Career (8-ball) 699.7 87 } 3960 175 7-60 22.62 4 - 57.09 39.63 (6-ball) 732.1 186 1949/50 – Australians in South Africa Miller joined the tour in time to play in the ninth match, against Transvaal at Johannesburg on December 12th. He appeared in thirteen games altogether including all five Test Matches and he scored 577 runs at an average of 38.46 and took forty four wickets at 16.54. Australia easily won the Test series by four games to nil. Miller soon got into his stride taking five for 40 in South Africa’s first innings of the First Test in only his third game of the tour. He took twelve more wickets in the Tests including four for forty two at Port Elizabeth in the final Test. In between he took one of the best analyses of his career so far, 6-35 against Natal at Pietermaritzburg. As a batsman he scored 246 runs in the Tests at 41.00 figures that placed him only in sixth place in the Australian batting such was the strength of the squad. His top score was 84 in the Fourth Test at Johannesburg. He made one century on the tour, 131 against Eastern Province at Port Elizabeth, but with four Australians averaging more than 55 runs per innings getting more runs was not a great priority for him. His performances certainly proved, if proof were needed, that he should have been one of those originally selected. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 98. Australians v Transvaal, Johannesburg, December 10, 12, 13 (Australians won by 15 runs) c B.Mitchell b A.M.B.Rowan 7 84 18 4 48 2 J.H.M.Pickerill c S.J.E.Loxton 125-9d M.G.Melle c J.Moroney b A.M.B.Rowan 1 109 4 2 5 1 B.Mitchell c J.Moroney 53 1 99. Australians v South African XI, Durban, December 17, 19, 20 (Match drawn) c R.G.Draper b G.Henderson 6 344-4 22 4 63 2 J.E.Cheetham b 329 L.W.Payn c G.Noblet 100. AUSTRALIA v SOUTH AFRICA, Johannesburg, December 24, 26, 27, 28 (Australia won by an innings and 85 runs) b N.B.F.Mann 21 413 15 2 40 5 E.A.B.Rowan b 137 W.W.Wade b J.C.Watkins c A.L.Hassett H.J.Tayfield lbw N.B.F.Mann b 11 1 27 0 191 2 101. AUSTRALIA v SOUTH AFRICA, Cape Town, December 31, January 2, 3, 4 (Australia won by eight wickets) b J.C.Watkins 58 526-7d 17 3 54 3 O.J.Wynne c I.W.Johnson 278 A.D.Nourse c W.A.Johnston J.E.Cheetham c C.L.McCool not out 16 87-2 11 0 43 0 333 102. Australians v Eastern Province, Port Elizabeth, January 7, 9, 10 (Australians won by an innings and 39 runs) c J.Young b S.D.du Toit 131 418 137 1 242 1 103. AUSTRALIA v SOUTH AFRICA, Durban, January 20, 21, 23, 24 (Australia won by five wickets) b H.J.Tayfield 2 75 24 5 73 1 E.A.B.Rowan c W.A.Johnston 311 lbw b N.B.F.Mann 10 336-5 7 0 12 0 99 19