Colin Miller is usually remembered for only one thing - trundling in with bright blue hair and making Courtney Walsh collapse with laughter.
What is forgotten is that he was an elite Test cricketer who debuted at the ripe old age of 34. He was a skilled seam bowler who could swing the ball both ways; good enough to snick off New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming with the first ball he bowled at him.
But he was also a top-class spinner when he decided to do more with it than just mess around in the nets. And how good of a spinner was he? Well, in 2001 he won the Australian Test Player of the Year award, ahead of two of the game's great spinners in Stuart MacGill and Shane Warne. Unfortunately for Miller, his late selection meant that he was not destined for a long Test career. His VARP of
29.08% is impressive enough, but all the more so when you consider that the most prolific spinners he played alongside were Warne, Murali, MacGill, Harbhajan and Vettori - the latter three of whom each put in career-best performances in Tests that involved Miller.