An invaluable all-rounder of Don Bradman’s “Invincible” team of the late 1940s, Keith Miller once had to crash-land his fighter jet during World War II. Going to work in his Royal Australian Air Force fatigues before he donned the Baggy Green, Miller had seen death from close quarters while taking on the Germans in the skies.

During his second innings, in the middle of a tense Ashes tour, the straight-talking Aussie was once asked about the pressure of playing against arch-rivals England. Folklore has it that Miller gave an almighty scoff followed by these famous lines: “Pressure is a Messerschmitt (German fighter jet) up your a**e. Playing cricket is not.”

Probably the only man in history to have undertaken dangerous sorties and played top-level cricket, Miller underlined the ridiculous

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