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Cricket loving PM Robert Menzies kept a photograph of a perfect Miller square drive on his office desk. Ian Wooldridge called Miller “the golden boy” of cricket, leading to the nickname “Nugget”. Cardus referred to him as Australian in excelsis.
born #onthisday 1919
West Indian captain John Goddard exclaimed, “Give us Keith Miller and we’ll beat the world.”
Miller was a great, great cricketer and one of the greatest self-mythologists.
In truth, Miller’s combat experience was rather insipid. Most of the War was spent in training for action.
The second was shorter, but slightly more eventful, and Miller had to bring his aircraft back to the base with the tanks liable to drop.
He was also sentenced to three weeks of hard labour for threatening to punch his superior officer
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