Remembering Keith Miller: Today is the 15th death anniversary of Keith Miller (28th Nov 1919 to 11th Oct 2004). He was the first great all-rounder in cricket, and a trail-blazer for later all-rounders like Kapil Dev, Gary Sobers, Ian Botham, Imran Khan, Richard Hadlee, Shaun Pollock, Jacques Kallis and many others. Keith Miller is regarded as Australia's greatest ever all-rounder. Because of his ability, irreverent manner and good looks he was a crowd favourite. In 55 tests, Miller scored 2958 runs as a right-handed batsman at an average of 36.97, with 7 hundreds and 13 fifties. As a right-arm fast bowler, he took 170 wickets at an average of 22.97. This included seven five-wicket hauls and one ten-wicket haul. He is probably best remembered for his new-ball partnership with Ray Lindwall, but it was as a classical batsman that he first made his mark: a photograph of Miller executkng a textbook square-drive adorned the desk of the cricket-loving Australian prime mi