While working in the Indian Civil Service he played eight matches of first-class cricket in India for the Europeans between 1898 and 1903.
[2] Their nephew Sir George Abell was also a civil servant and first-class cricketer in India and England.
He was the Europeans’ highest scorer in the match in August 1900, although he made only 24 and the Parsees won by 135 runs.
[3] A few weeks later he was the Europeans’ top scorer again with 84, leading the fightback after a 217-run first-innings deficit to earn a close-fought draw.
[5] In September 1920, shortly after purchasing an estate at Aldington in Kent, Sale was found shot dead in a nearby wood with a rifle lying beside him.