Random Cricket Photos Post 31




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"I am lost for words. What is that?" quipped Michael Holding on air on 27th December, 2000 as Australian offie Colin Miller took his hat off to bowl. On strike was Courtney Walsh, who couldn't control his laughter at what he saw. He backed away laughing and walked up to the umpire enquiring about the bowler with a smile on his face.

What was going on?

Well, Colin 'Funky' Miller, as he was called for his theatrics, had revealed his hair dyed blue to the MCG crowd and Walsh.

The colorful man that Miller was, he later revealed in an interview that the color wasn't exactly planned. "I asked a hairdresser to come to the hotel room and bring some hair colours. Blue is what she had. Over the next few years, I dyed my hair red, orange, yellow, pink and green."

That wasn't the only funkiness he had up his sleeve. In the previous season when Australia were touring New Zealand, Miller came into bowl early in the Wellington Test. With a left-handed Stephen Fleming on strike first up, he bowled his gentle off spinners from round the wicket to him before the Kiwi captain took a single to turn the strike over to Matthew Sinclair.

At this point, Miller not only came over the wicket to the right-hander but also sent the keeper away from the stumps. To Sinclair's surprise, the bowler had switched to medium pace with a long run up.

Now whether it was the shock factor or just poor batting one can't tell but Sinclair missed a straight one on his pads to be given out LBW on that delivery.
Miller had done it once again!

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