Geoff Miller

Geoff Miller
Personal information
Full name
Geoffrey Miller
Born (1952-09-08) 8 September 1952 (age 72)
Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England
NicknameDusty
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm offbreak
International information
National side
Test debut12 August 1976 v West Indies
Last Test28 June 1984 v West Indies
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1973–1986Derbyshire
1983/84Natal
1987–1989Essex
1990Derbyshire
1991–1994Cheshire
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 34 25 383 334
Runs scored 1,213 136 12,027 4,234
Batting average 25.80 8.50 26.49 20.16
100s/50s 0/7 0/0 2/72 0/17
Top score 98* 46 130 88*
Balls bowled 5,149 1,268 59,221 13,389
Wickets 60 25 888 278
Bowling average 30.98 32.52 27.98 29.44
5 wickets in innings 1 0 39 4
10 wickets in match 0 0 7 0
Best bowling 5/44 3/27 8/70 4/22
Catches/stumpings 17/– 4/– 309/– 110/–
Medal record
Men's Cricket
Representing  England
ICC Cricket World Cup
Runner-up 1979 England
Source: CricketArchive, 18 July 2010

Geoffrey Miller, OBE (born 8 September 1952) is an English former cricketer, who played in 34 Test matches and 25 One Day Internationals for the England cricket team between 1976 and 1984. Nicknamed "Dusty",[1] he played for Derbyshire from 1973 to 1986, captaining the side from 1979 to 1981 (following the sudden resignation of David Steele after six weeks in the role), and returned in 1990 after playing for Essex between 1987 and 1989.[2] He was an England selector from 2008 to 2013 and was appointed President of Derbyshire C.C.C. in March 2014. He was a part of the English squad which finished as runners-up at the 1979 Cricket World Cup.

The cricket writer, Colin Bateman, noted, "Geoff Miller concedes that he probably enjoyed cricket too much. He did not take it as seriously as some, And when it became a rigorous, grim-faced business, he was not sorry to bow out of an eight-year Test career that never reached the peaks many expected".[2] Likewise Simon Hughes referred to Miller in 1990 as being "the only remaining player who unfailingly visited the opposing team's dressing room after play to thank them for the game ... [and] the last man to field at slip with a whoopee cushion up his jumper"[3]

  1. ^ "Statistics/G Miller/One-day internationals". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Cap was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Simon Hughes, A Lot of Hard Yakka, Headline Book Publishing (London, 1997) p. 246, ISBN 978-0-7472-5516-1