Second seeded Scot will play the winner of the later quarterfinal between French eighth seed Richard Gasquet and Tomas Berdych Czech fourth seed for a place in the final of the tournament on Sunday at 8.5 million dollar hard.
Murray won the title in Miami in 2009, and lost against Novak Djokovic in the final last year.
Improvement in 1.8 times against all Cilic, Murray beat him five times, since the only defeat in the second round of the 2009 U.S. Open.
Cilic beat Murray in four sets in the U.S. Open quarter-finals last year en route to his first Grand Slam crown before their last meeting.
Cilic saved four break points in the first game before the exchange of breaks in the next four games before Murray held at 3-3 and sprayed errant shots more than winners in the beginning.
Murray backhand winner to break in the ninth game to 5.4 lead and though he fell behind 0-30, Murray won the next four points and took the first set in 45 minutes, when the displacement of one Cilic forehand volley.
Cilic beat Murray, to open the second set then held to love and exchange of breaks in the seventh and eighth games of issues before concluding his point of view, breaking the seventh game, when Cilic won forehand after an hour and 42 minutes.
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