Kenneth 'Monkey' Sellar (11 August 1906 – 15 May 1989) was an English sportsman who represented the England national rugby union team and played

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for Sussex. As a right-handed specialist batsman, Sellar appeared in 19 first-class matches and made 616 runs at 19.87. Many of those matches were with Sussex but he also played for the

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. He made just one century in his career, an innings of 119 in a County Championship match against Somerset in Hove. He was better known as a rugby player and out of his seven caps, six were in Five Nations and the other came when England defeated Australia at Twickenham. He was a member of the

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team which won the

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. Sellar was also a celebrated commander in the

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and took part in

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and the

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. Having been brought up in South Africa, Sellar returned there in the 1980s and was living in

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when he died in 1989.

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External links

Cricinfo: Kenneth Sellar
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sellar, Kenneth 1906 births 1989 deaths English rugby union players England international rugby union players English cricketers Sussex cricketers Rugby union players from Lewisham Combined Services cricketers Royal Navy cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Royal Navy officers of World War II H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI cricketers Rugby union fullbacks