"Geoffrey Miller", Order of the British Empire/OBE is an English former cricketer, who played in thirty four Test cricket/Tests and twenty five One Day International/ODIs for England cricket team/England from 1976 to 1984. He played for Derbyshire County Cricket Club/Derbyshire from 1973 to 1986, Captain (cricket)/captaining the side from 1979 to 1981 (following the sudden resignation of David Steele (cricketer)/David Steele after six weeks in the role), and returned in 1990 after playing for Essex County Cricket Club/Essex between 1987 and 1989. He was an England selector from 2008 to 2013 and was appointed President of Derbyshire C.C.C. in March 2014.

The cricket writer, Colin Bateman, noted, "Geoff Miller concedes that he probably enjoyed cricket too much. He did not take it as seriously as some, And when it became a rigorous, grim-faced business, he was not sorry to bow out of an eight-year Test career that never reached the peaks many expected". Likewise Simon Hughes (cricketer)/Simon Hughes referred to Miller in 1990 as being "the only remaining player who unfailingly visited the opposing team's dressing room after play to thank them for the game ... [and] the last man to field at slip with a whoopee cushion up his jumper"

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