Arthur Sellers
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Born | Keighley, Yorkshire, England | 31 May 1870||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 25 September 1941 Keighley, Yorkshire, England | (aged 71)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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).
Born in Keighley, Yorkshire, 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
[edit]- ^ 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.
External links
[edit]- Media related to Arthur Sellers at Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Sellers at ESPNcricinfo