Lawrie Miller
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| Batting style | Left-hand bat | |
| Bowling type | Left-arm slow-medium | |
| Tests | First-class | |
| Matches | 13 | 82 |
| Runs scored | 346 | 4777 |
| Batting average | 13.83 | 37.61 |
| 100s/50s | 0/0 | 5/34 |
| Top score | 47 | 144 |
| Balls bowled | 2 | 144 |
| Wickets | - | 3 |
| Bowling average | - | 25.00 |
| 5 wickets in innings | - | 0 |
| 10 wickets in match | - | 0 |
| Best bowling | - | 1/7 |
| Catches/stumpings | 1/- | 33/- |
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Test debut: 6 March 1953 |
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Lawrence Somerville Martin Miller (born March 31, 1923 in New Plymouth, Taranaki, died December 17, 1996 in Wellington) was a cricketer who played for Central Districts, Wellington and New Zealand.
A tall left-handed opening batsman, Miller was a late developer who made his first class debut at 27 and was in the New Zealand Test team within three years. But though he played 13 Tests over five years, he made little impact, never passing 50 in an innings, averaging less than 14 runs per innings and, in his first series in South Africa in 1953-54, compiling four successive ducks. His Test career ended after the damp series in England in 1958, when he completed 1,000 runs in first-class matches but again failed in the Tests.
His highest Test score was 47 and, in a low-scoring game against West Indies at Auckland in 1955-56, New Zealand finally won a Test match after 26 years of trying.
