Arthur Sellers should not be confused with Arthur Sellers (Scottish cricketer).
Arthur Sellers | |
Birth Date: | 31 May 1870 |
Birth Place: | Keighley, Yorkshire, England |
Death Place: | Keighley, Yorkshire, England |
Batting: | Right-handed |
Columns: | 1 |
Column1: | First-class |
Matches1: | 53 |
Runs1: | 1,852 |
Bat Avg1: | 19.91 |
100S/50S1: | 2/7 |
Top Score1: | 105 |
Deliveries1: | 220 |
Wickets1: | 2 |
Bowl Avg1: | 74.50 |
Fivefor1: | 0 |
Tenfor1: | 0 |
Best Bowling1: | 74.50 |
Catches/Stumpings1: | 47/– |
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.