Lives in Cricket No 47 - Brian Sellers

100 Last seasons 1946-48 Front and back of the Yorkshire-Lancashire scorecard at Headingley, May 1948, the first Roses match without Sellers for a generation; Smailes captained instead. start, ‘and I returned to the dressing room a very much sadder man. If I was not a little wiser it was not the fault of Mr Brian Sellers.’ In private or in public, whoever it was, Sellers ‘set the highest possible standard’. It worked; in ten years Wardle progressed from newcomer, so anxious not to be late that he arrived first, to Ashes-winning left-arm spin bowler. Perhaps he had progressed too far. The way he used Sellers’ first name,