Famous Cricketers No 70 - Keith Miller

SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Test matches 5 10 1 362 129 40.22 1 1 5 Sheffield Shield 4 6 0 192 57 32.00 - 2 5 Other matches 1 1 0 30 30 30.00 - - 1 Season 10 17 1 584 129 36.50 1 3 11 Career 134 198 22 8740 214 49.65 24 41 94 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Strike RunR Test matches 128.3 16 398 20 5-26 19.90 2 - 51.35 38.75 Sheffield Shield 60.4 6 219 4 3-62 54.75 - - 121.00 45.24 Other matches 29.1 5 63 8 4-20 7.87 - - 29.12 27.03 Season (8-ball) 218 27 680 32 5-26 21.25 2 - 54.50 38.99 Career (8-ball) 1430.5 198 } 6130 278 7-60 22.05 8 - 56.97 38.70 (6-ball) 732.1 186 1951/52 - Commonwealth XI in Ceylon Miller was invited to play for a Commonwealth team against MCC at the end of the MCC winter tour of India, Pakistan and Ceylon. It had been a long tour and the tourists were weary and a strong Commonwealth XI won easily by an innings and 259 runs. Miller’s contribution was to score 106 in his only innings and to take five wickets for just 24 runs, all top-order batsmen. Wisden described him as “the big personality of the match”. Quite! Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 135. Commonwealth XI v MCC, Colombo, February 16, 17, 18, 19 (Commonwealth XI won by an innings and 259 runs) c D.B.Carr b D.Shackleton 106 517 13 9 20 3 J.D.B.Robertson b 103 1 D.Kenyon c M.H.Mankad D.B.Carr c Imtiaz Ahmed 7 4 4 2 J.D.B.Robertson c M.H.Mankad 155 F.A.Lowson b SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Other matches 1 1 0 106 106 106.00 1 - 1 Career 135 199 22 8846 214 49.97 25 41 95 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Strike RunR Other matches (6-b) 20 13 24 5 3-20 4.80 - - 24.00 20.00 Career (8-ball) 1430.5 198 6154 283 7-60 21.74 8 - 56.38 38.56 (6-ball) 752.1 199 1952/53 Miller was appointed captain of New South Wales in 1952/53 and led them to runners-up spot in the Sheffield Shield competition. He was also appointed vice-captain of Australia against the touring South Africans. This unfancied side actually managed to draw the series two all, assisted perhaps by the Australian selectors who rested Miller and Lindwall for the final Test with Australia 2-1 up. In the Test matches Miller performed only moderately, for him. He scored 153 runs at an average of 25.50 and took thirteen wickets at 18.53. He took seven wickets at Melbourne in the Second Test and five at Sydney in the Third Test where Australia’s pace attack put South Africa out for scores of 173 and 232. For New South Wales he made a century against Queensland in his first innings of the season. Against 24