Rex Sellers (cricketer)
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Reginald Hugh Durning Sellers Template:Post-nominals (born 20 August 1940) is a former Test cricketer (Australian test cap 230). He was the second Indian-born cricketer to have played a Test match for Australia and the first of Anglo-Indian descent.[1]
Family
The son of William Alfred Durning Sellers (1907-2005), and Irene Ethel Sellers (1915-2005), née Fremantle, Reginald Hugh Durning Sellers was born at Bulsar, now Valsad, in Gujarat, India on 20 August 1940.
Sellers is married to Ann and has three sons. His brother Basil Sellers is a businessman and philanthropist.
Education
Having migrated with his family to Australia in early 1948, and from the connexion with Cecil Charles Shinkfield (1891-1973), then the headmaster of King's College, Adelaide, established aboard RMS Strathaird during their voyage to Australia the two brothers attended King's College.[2]
Cricket
A tall leg-spinner, and affectionately known as "Sahib" in cricket circles, he toured England with Bobby Simpson’s touring team in the summer of 1964 but did not play any of the test matches. He played one Test match for Australia in India, in October 1964, in which he was bowled for a duck, took one catch and bowled five overs for 17 runs without taking a wicket.
His playing career was severely restricted when cysts developed under a tendon attached to his spinning finger; although he did return to the South Australian Cricket team as a batsman, where he made his highest score Template:Em-dash 87, caught Ian Brayshaw, bowled Tony Lock — in his last innings, in the January 1967 match in Perth against Western Australia.[3]
Cricket administrator
He retired after the 1966–67 season.[4] However Sellers has had a long career serving the South Australian Cricket Association (SACA) in both selection and administrative roles, was on the board of the Les Favell Foundation and was made a Life Member of the SACA. He was also a long serving President at the Woodville West Torrens Football Club in the SANFL.
2013 Australia Day Honours
He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2013 Australia Day Honours, for "service to the sport of cricket, particularly as an administrator."[5]
Notes
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- ↑ The first was Bransby Beauchamp Cooper (1844-1914), born in British India, who played in the first-ever Test Match, contested at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, in March 1877.
- ↑ Dhole (2016).
- ↑ Shield Record to Tony Lock, The Canberra Times, Saturday, 28 January 1967, p.28.
- ↑ Skene (2016).
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References
- Dhole, Pradip (2016), "Rex Sellers: First-Anglo Indian to play for Australia", Cricket Country, 16 September 2016.
- Skene, Patrick. (2016), "The Forgotten Story of ... Rex Sellers, the Indian-Australian leg-spinner, The Guardian, Tuesday, 12 January 2016.
- D400, SA1964/1238: Certificate of Registration as an Australian Citizen No.C(1)21780: Reginald Hugh Durning Sellers, National Archives of Australia.
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