Lives in Cricket No 47 - Brian Sellers

15 Sellers and son Likewise, some of Arthur Sellers’ reported words sounded like his son’s. Both men championed good fielding. ‘When I was a young player I practised every night I possibly could and we had not the advantages you have nowadays of daylight saving,’ Arthur told a prize-giving at Ingrow outside Keighley in 1937: ‘A man who made 50 runs by batting and lost 60 on the field was not as good as a man who made only 20 but saved 50.’ ‘Anyone calling himself a cricketer ought to be able to field,’ Brian told the Bradford League annual dinner in 1956. North Street, Keighley, one of the main streets in the town in the 1900s. Sellers’ childhood home was out of town on the left. In the centre of the picture is the Devonshire Hotel, where Arthur Sellers was elected a member of Keighley cricket club in 1887.