David Miller holds document he would like to not have

David Miller holds a global cricket document he would like to not have.

No one has performed extra worldwide cricket with out taking part in in a Test match than Miller.

The hard-hitting left-hander has performed in 274 white-ball internationals. The nearest contender for the non-Test document is retired West Indian Kieron Pollard on 224.

“I would have loved to play a Test, but it is what it is,” says Miller, 34.

“I’ve achieved quite a lot in my white-ball stuff and I’m grateful to have played so many games.”

Miller has constructed a stable First-Class document, averaging 36.32 in 63 matches, with six centuries, which he backed up with electrifying fielding.

But it was a time of lots in a South African Test batting line-up which included Jacques Kallis, Hashim Amla, AB de Villiers and Faf du Plessis, whereas white-ball cricket was turning into ever extra prevalent – and profitable.

In 2018, nearing his thirtieth birthday, he retired from First-Class cricket.

“I wasn’t being picked, even for the South Africa A side. There were guys ahead of me so I decided to concentrate on the white-ball stuff.”

He is in demand from franchises all over the world – taking part in for 22 totally different consultant groups – and a crowd favorite in South Africa the place supporters wave banners proclaiming ‘Killer Miller’ and ‘It’s Miller Time’.

He is considered one of solely 4 gamers who has scored greater than 3,000 runs in One-Day Internationals with a mean above 40 and a strike charge above 100. The others are de Villiers and England’s Jos Buttler and Jonny Bairstow.

Big sixes

He is famend for hitting large sixes and has cleared all three grandstands on totally different sides of his dwelling floor at Kingsmead in Durban.

Recently he hit a ball out of the bottom towards Australia on the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg.

An off-the-cuff remark he made after an Indian Premier League (IPL) recreation is quoted recurrently, “If it’s in the arc it’s out (of) the park, if it’s in the vee it’s in the tree.”

“That came from my dad,” he says.

Andrew Miller was a superb membership cricketer who performed for Natal Country Districts.

It’s not all large hitting, although.

Batting at quantity six in a aspect with out established all-rounders, Miller will probably be in conditions on the World Cup the place he must take accountability for rebuilding an innings.

“It’s about summing up the situation. Sometimes you are batting with the lower order and you have to decide with your partner at the time how you are going to go about it. It’s like a chess game at times. You are thinking about moves and what’s important and what’s not. It’s about making clear decisions. It helps your execution when you are fully committed.”

Both sides of Miller had been on show when South Africa needed to win the final three matches of a latest dwelling sequence towards Australia after shedding the primary two.

In the fourth match he thrashed an unbeaten 82 off 45 balls as he and an impressed Heinrich Klaasen added a scarcely plausible 222 off 94 balls for the fifth wicket.

In the deciding match, in trickier situations, he made a extra measured 63 off 65 balls to allow South Africa to get to a defendable complete after a troublesome begin.

“The World Cup is very open,” he says. “We’re a pretty experienced team. We’re capable of doing it, so it’s a matter of getting the basics right for longer periods of time.”