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Geoff Miller is a former Derbyshire, Essex, Natal and England Player, England Cricket Selector and now an Entertaining After-Dinner Speaker.
Geoff Miller: Cricketer
He spent 20 years on the professional cricket circuit representing Derbyshire, Essex, Natal and England. He travelled to all the major Test-playing countries; and played with or against some of the greatest players in the game. To which he freely admits: “I wasn’t one of them!” In his own words: “I was a comparatively boring bread and butter cricketer; who was only selected in the team to allow all the brilliant flair players to perform with freedom”.
England selector
Geoff joined the England selection panel in 2000. Eight years later, he usurped David Graveney as England’s National Selector – a post D. Graveney had held for eleven years. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to cricket, following his retirement as an England selector at the end of 2013
Northern Humour
Apart from cricket, Geoff Miller’s greatest attribute was the ability to keep his team-mates amused; with his hilarious dry Northern humour – which he now brings to the after dinner speaking stage from his roots at Chesterfield. By virtue of the sport he was in and the life he has led, Geoff Miller now possesses a whole host of hilarious anecdotes and stories; about himself and his colleagues which he relates both in male or mixed company. Cricket is not the only topic he puts under the microscope in his search for amusement.
Geoff Miller Speaker
Geoff is now in popular demand throughout the country and overseas for corporate events, company seminars, trade associations, round tables and sportsman’s dinners.
He has found his speaking career just as stimulating as facing Michael Holding and Dennis Lillee; or bowling at Viv Richards and Ian Botham (who he roomed with on tour for five years!)There must be a story or two somewhere from that – and indeed there is!
Career Highlights
He played 34 Test Matches; 25 One Day Internationals; 7 Overseas Tours; Scored over 14,000 runs; was captain of Derbyshire and Vice Captain of England; took over 1000 wickets and held over 300 catches. In 2008, Geoff Miller was elected as National Selector by the England and Wales Cricket Board.
“Everyone loved the talk – including those who knew nothing about cricket’.” -The Institute of Chartered Accountants
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The Institute of Chartered Accountants –
Everyone loved the talk – including those who knew nothing about cricket.
William Reed Business Media –
Thoroughly entertaining, Geoff was an extremely accommodating client, happy to discuss our requirements and really honed in on the audience. He was a pleasure to work with and knew exactly how to hold the audiences attention!
Morris Homes –
Geoff went down a storm at our do last week. He had everyone laughing. Some of our guests are not in to cricket and they enjoyed him even more so! So all the feedback I have had has been very positive.
Food Storage and Distribution Federation –
Brilliant – very entertaining and great to listen to. The audience was very pleased and all commented at how much they enjoyed Geoff. 10 out of 10!
Kier Group –
Geoff was absolutely brilliant that night. He had all 179 delegates crying with laughter! After an extremely intense day of corporate strategy, figures, slides and presentations, Geoff’s talk after the dinner was the perfect round-up to the day and everyone left on a real high. He was absolutely excellent and every single delegate I spoke to in the bar after the dinner agreed that he was exactly right in tone, humour and friendliness for our audience. My eyes were streaming from start to finish with his hilarious anecdotes!
Timber Trade Association –
Our Dinner last night was very successful and in no small way your speech, which was excellent, was the icing on the cake. I have organized (and attended) more of these events than I care to remember and I have to say there are not many speakers out there that can hold a room as you did last night. As you know, there were a number of overseas guests, who had no idea about the game of cricket, but were laughing as much as the audience! So, Geoff, thank you so much for being such an entertaining speaker and your input into make it the success it so obviously was