'Killer Miller': Proteas batting ace holds record he would prefer not to have

David Miller holds an international cricket record he would prefer not to have.

No one has played more international cricket without playing in a Test match than Miller.

The hard-hitting left-hander has played in 274 white-ball internationals. The nearest contender for the non-Test record is retired West Indian Kieron Pollard on 224.

"I would have loved to play a Test, but it is what it is," says Miller, 34.

"I've achieved quite a lot in my white-ball stuff and I'm grateful to have played so many games."

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Miller has built a solid first-class record, averaging 36.32 in 63 matches, with six centuries, which he backed up with electrifying fielding.

But it was a time of plenty in a South African Test batting line-up which included Jacques Kallis, Hashim Amla, AB de Villiers and Faf du Plessis, while white-ball cricket was becoming ever more prevalent - and lucrative.

In 2018, nearing his 30th birthday, he retired from first-class cricket.

"I wasn't being picked, even for the South Africa A side. There were guys ahead of me so I decided to concentrate on the white-ball stuff."

He is in demand from franchises around the world - playing for 22 different representative teams - and a crowd favourite in South Africa where supporters wave banners proclaiming 'Killer Miller' and 'It's Miller Time'.

He is one of only four players who has scored more than 3 000 runs in one-day internationals with an average above 40 and a strike rate above 100. The others are De Villiers and England's Jos Buttler and Jonny Bairstow.

Big sixes

He is renowned for hitting big sixes and has cleared all three grandstands on different sides of his home ground at