Object number
M.2018.2
Title
Australian Test Cap of Keith Miller, 1948
Date
1948
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Size
diameter: 18.5 cm
Description
Flannel, baggy green cap with gold badge of the Australian Cricket Club. A shield is supported on either side by Dexter a Kangaroo and Sinister an Emu. Half sun with rays above the shield and ribbon below the shield with Australia 1948 embroidered in gold.
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Australian Test Cap worn by Keith Miller 1948
Farmers of Sydney
Courtesy of a Private Collector
LN.2011.2
Keith Miller is known to the cricketing world as the swashbuckling all-rounder who was part of arguably the greatest Australian side ever to tour England, the `Invincibles’ of 1948. As Richie Benaud famously recounted Miller had a dim first reaction to Lord’s but came to regard it as a second home; not only does his portrait hang in the Long Room but there is eucalyptus tree planted in his memory on the coach mound outside the museum.
Miller flew for the RAF during the war but only saw operational duty in 1945, the same year in which he hit a magnificent 185 at Lord’s for the Dominions against England. That summer, Miller had been asked about the pressure of playing test cricket. ‘I’ll tell you what pressure is,’ he responded, ‘Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your a**e. Cricket is not.’
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