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Named for two famous aviators and himself a wartime bomber pilot, Keith Ross Miller handled bat and ball with the same abandon as a barnstormer did a joystick. Len Hutton called him "the most unpredictable cricketer I have played against". A commanding batsman from the first, whose 185 for the Dominions against England at Lord's in August 1945 awoke observers to a special talent, he flowered into a fast bowler still capable, at 36, of taking ten wickets in a Test on the same ground. Lounging deceptively, he was also an outstanding slip fielder. No cricketer was so heedless of figures, few personalities so naturally engaging, although the Australian Board considered his mercurial temperament unsuited to the national captaincy. Neville Cardus thought him, nonetheless, "the Australian in excelsis". Gideon Haigh

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