Keith Miller started life as a World War II pilot of the Royal Australian Air Force - he is widely regarded as Australia's greatest ever all-rounder. Tall, skillful and blessed with good looks he was a crowd favourite. An English journalist called Miller "the golden boy" of cricket, leading to him being nicknamed "nugget". A member of the record-breaking Invincibles team of 1948 , by the time of his retirement from Test cricket in 1956, Miller had the best statistics of any all-rounder in cricket history. He often batted high in the order, sometimes as high as number three. When bowling, Miller was famous for varying his run-up; he would often bowl his fastest deliveries from a short run. He was also a proponent of the sparing use of slower deliveries, to surprise batsmen. He was also a fine fielder and an especially acrobatic catcher in the slips. He played 55 tests scoring 2958 runs and took 170 wickets.
