Arthur Sellers

Arthur Sellers (31 May 1870 – 25 September 1941) was an English amateur first-class cricketer, who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1890 to 1899,[1] and in other first-class matches for the North of England (1893) and Gentlemen of England (1895).

Sellers (left), Ernest Smith, Lord Hawke and Hon F.S. Jackson

Born in Keighley, Yorkshire, England, Sellers, in 53 first-class games, scored 1,852 runs at 19.91, hitting two centuries against Middlesex and Somerset. Sellers took 47 catches and two wickets, at 74.50. Both victims came in a spell of 2 for 28 against Kent.

Sellers died in Keighley in September 1941.

His son, Brian Sellers, was Yorkshire captain from 1933 to 1947, and a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1940.

References

  1. ↑ Warner, David (2011). The Yorkshire County Cricket Club: 2011 Yearbook (113th ed.). Ilkley, Yorkshire: Great Northern Books. p. 377. ISBN 978-1-905080-85-4.

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