Rex Sellers (cricketer)
Reginald Hugh Durning Sellers is a former Test cricketer. He was the second Indian-born cricketer to have played a Test match for Australia and the first of Anglo-Indian descent.
Family
The son of William Alfred Durning Sellers, and Irene Ethel Sellers, 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, then the headmaster of King's College, Adelaide, established aboard RMS Strathaird during their voyage to Australia the two brothers attended King's College.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 87, caught Ian Brayshaw, bowled Tony Lock in his last innings, in the January 1967 match in Perth against Western Australia.