The fullback rose to head home Todd Cantwell's corner at the near-post, a neatly taken first-half equaliser that earned Rovers a 1-1 draw against Watford and enabled them to move out of the bottom three, edging ahead of Portsmouth on goal difference into 21st place.
Miller's second goal for the club since his move from Scottish club Hibernian in the close season will only have endeared the robust 25-year-old Sydneysider to the Ewood Park faithful even more.Â
The club's twitter account hailed him as "Our Aussie warrior!", adding to his cult status for the three-time English champions after he'd scored his first goal for Rovers in their 2-1 derby win over Preston in November.
Miller, the former Central Coast Mariner who's set to be World Cup-bound after the season's over, had never scored at Ewood Park, and back in the Blackburn line-up on Saturday, his goal answered Edo Kayembe's 26th minute opener for playoff-chasing Watford within a couple of minutes.
The goal lifted the gloom in the stadium on a subdued day which marked the start of a "phased strategic boycott of home fixtures" organised by the Blackburn Rovers Supporters Coalition, aimed at forcing the unpopular owners, Venky's, to sell the club.
Miller's Socceroos teammate Nestory Irankunda came on as a second-half sub for Watford, but it was Rovers who could have won the match at the death when Yuki Ohashi was denied by the visitors' Norwegian keeper Egil Selvik.
Two other Socceroos in action in England's second-tier were Riley McGree, returning from injury, and Sammy Silvera, who both featured as second-half subs for Middlesbrough in their 4-0 hammering of Preston which pushed them to within three points of leaders Coventry, who travel to Norwich on Monday.
Meanwhile, Wrexham's bid for a fourth straight promotion and a place in the Premier League is also gaining steam after they achieved a dramatic 3-2 win at QPR with two stoppage-time goals to move into sixth, the final playoff position.
