Australia's greatest all-rounder

Keith Miller, who has died aged 84, was one of the most exciting and most skilled performers that cricket has witnessed.
As the finest all-rounder the country ever produced, he invariably earns a place in a pick of the all-time greatest Australia side.

He did not always have a happy relationship with the Australian cricket hierarchy; he was never invited to captain his country, a post he probably deserved.

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.

Australia's oldest living former Test cricketer, 92-year-old Bill Brown, said: "He was the finest all-rounder I came into contact with - he could bat, bowl, field and he could fly an aeroplane.

"He was a strong hitter of the ball, he had a very good pair of hands - especially in close - and you could always give him the new ball with confidence."

Miller is one of only three Australian cricketers, along with Bradman and Victor Trumper, to be honoured with a portrait in the Lord's Long Room in London.

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