Lives in Cricket No 47 - Brian Sellers

147 the slightest’. Such indifference to others might also explain why he left instructions for his body to go to Leeds Medical School, ‘because he didn’t want any funeral. Because he said, I have been to lots of other people’s funerals and got fairly well pissed; well, none of the buggers are going to mine. My brother and I got into a bit of an argument about that with various people, who rang up and said well, there should be a funeral of some description.’ Sellers and his wife had a memorial service at Bingley in 1983, which Sellers had not wanted either: ‘He didn’t want anything. He just wanted to quietly disappear.’ In 1999, Sellers’ memorabilia went to auction at Ilkley. A silver salver signed by the 1932 Championship team went for £1150. A smaller silver salver from 1935 (perhaps smaller because by then the buyers realised this man could win many more Championships, and put them to much more expense) went for £360. Sellers became whoever bid most for him. Not everything went to auction. Geoff Cope said in 2016: I look across at my little trophy cabinet and amongst all my other things, all Yorkshire caps, England caps, there’s actually a ball that Andrew Sellers gave me. Andrew and David, his two sons, because they knew what I thought of Sellers … it’s now so worn it’s very difficult to see; a time he took five catches in an innings against Essex; and they have given me that ball that’s mounted with a silver wrap around it; and it stands with the rest; I am very proud of that. Burton upon Trent, December 2015- 9 April 2016 Keighley, December 2015