The iconic Keith Miller: A tribute

At his best, Miller was very fast and could be devastating as a bowler.As Bradman later wrote in his autobiography, Miller could be 'volatile' but when on song, there was no better cricketer in the world. He took 170 Test wickets at an average of less than 23 in his 55-match playing career. He had all the variations in his armoury. He could bowl off-cutters, slow off-breaks, even googlies! And when he wanted to bowl really fast, he could do that at as well.

In the first Test of the famous 1948 Ashes series, Miller opened the bowling with 'partner in crime' Ray Lindwall. Len Hutton remembered how the fast bowler in Miller took care of him in the second innings.

"He accepted 1s,2s and 3s but boundaries were an indignity he did not cheerfully tolerate, and invariably the next ball would be an absolute fizzer."

"He was trundling away with medium-pace off-breaks when I took two successive boundaries and fourteen in an over. I knew what to expect, and in eight balls I had five bouncers, one of which left the manufacturer's imprint on my shoulder. Two others leapt at my throat from just short of a length as if they had been bowled from no more than ten yards away with a tennis ball."

Hutton was eventually dismissed bowled by Miller in that innings.