He was the second Indian-born cricketer to have played a Test match for Australia and the first of Anglo-Indian descent.
Having migrated with his family to Australia in early 1948, and from the connexion with Cecil Charles Shinkfield (1891-1973), then the headmaster of King's College, Adelaide, established aboard RMS Strathaird during their voyage to Australia the two brothers attended King's College.
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.
[4] However Sellers has had a long career serving the South Australian Cricket Association (SACA) in both selection and administrative roles, was on the board of the Les Favell Foundation and was made a Life Member of the SACA.
He was also a long serving President at the Woodville West Torrens Football Club in the SANFL.