Miller averaged 40 below no4 with a bowling workload. Did not play in a batting era. Has destructive upsides and averages nearly 50 in first-class cricket. Very good. Play him as a batsman specialist in the 60s or the 2000s and he's averaging 45 no problem. Graeme Hick is a nonsense comparison. Miller had a vastly more accomplished test batting career than that flat track bully so Miller's first-class record serves as more evidence of his quality.
The gap between Kallis' batting and Miller's bowling is clearly smaller than the gap between Miller's batting and Kallis' bowling.
I've seen it suggested before that Miller was the 007 of cricket despite being an Aussie. Perhaps he was closer to the English masculinity ideal than the Australian masculinity ideal. Played as more of a cavalier than the archetypal English cricketer though. Lillee is unequivocally, intensely, Australian.
A bit selective, what about when he was batting above 4?
Not selective. Thinking a pace-bowling all-rounder should bat 5/6 for workload purposes alone is hardly radical.
45 average specialist in 2000s would average below 40 in 1950s.
For what it's worth, Miller came 13th in the ESPN top 50 cricketers of all time, so it's pretty certain some journalists did rate him in their top ten.
In the absence of advanced comparative statistical analysis that doesn’t exist in cricket relative to other sports, you are dealing with conjecture (this site) and peer / pundit analysis (journalists).
13th in ESPN's top 50 of all time. That is close to top ten. CMJ also rated Alec Bedser ahead of Wasim Akram and Curtly Ambrose. Cricket writers agreeing with you doesn't necessarily mean you're correct.
Fair enough, didn’t see the ESPN list although looking at it it was 2001 and Richards was 3 and Tendulkar 7.
He was rated ahead of Marshall and Lara.
Or the blinders that you have on?
Choosing which position to use is cherry picking. And the only country he averaged even close to 45 in was the WI, where he scored half his test hundreds in that one series and where everyone castigates Weekes and Walcott for being flat track bullies. He averaged 73 in the Caribbean and 24 in England
It's not cherry picking sir. I don't expect an all-rounder (who is an elite bowler) to be a gun top 4 batsman on workload grounds alone. Letterlone the fact a profile like that can still be near-incomparably valuable doing what he did in the middle order so isolating his average of 40 batting below no4 is totally fair.
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