Keith Miller Dies Aged 84

Australian cricket legend Keith Miller has died in a nursing home at the age of 84.

A former World War II fighter pilot, who made his Test debut in 1946, Miller was a fixture in the Australia team for a decade and is one of the greatest all-rounders in cricket history.

He made 55 Test appearances for Australia, scoring 2,958 runs at an average of 36.97 and claiming 170 victims with the ball at 22.97.

Miller played his first-class cricket for Victoria and New South Wales, while he also made one appearance for Nottinghamshire in the 1959 season.

In his one appearance for Notts, Miller scored 62 and 102 not out in a match against Cambridge University at Trent Bridge. Miller's Test career featured seven centuries and one 10-wicket match haul.

His career overlapped with that of Sir Donald Bradman, and the two were Australia team-mates briefly, with Bradman the studious batsman and Miller a maverick cricketer, unpredictable and a crowd-pleasing player.

His ten-wicket haul for Australia came against England at Lord's in 1956, when Miller was aged 36. Miller was also a classy fielder and took 38 catches in his Test career, mostly in the slips.

Earlier in his life, he had been a talented Aussie Rules player, a sport in which he represented the Victoria state side. Arguably more feted in England than his native Australia, Miller's performances in air force matches and for the Australian Services team during WWII captured the imagination of the cricketing public.

He left international cricket behind in 1956 and went on to pursue a part-time career in journalism.

Miller was also awarded an MBE for services to cricket and his portrait hangs at Lord's to this day.