# Ben Sealey

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**Benjamin James Sealey** or **Sealy** (12 August 1899 – 12 September 1963) was a [West Indian](/source/West_Indies) cricketer whose career spanned the years [1924 to 1941](/source/History_of_cricket_in_the_West_Indies_from_1918-19_to_1945). He was an attacking, middle-order [batsman](/source/Batsman), a medium-pace, leg-break [bowler](/source/Bowler_(cricket)) and an athletic [fielder](/source/Fielding_(cricket)) anywhere in the field. Despite once turning out for a "[Barbados](/source/Barbados)-born" side against the Rest of West Indies, Sealey was a [Trinidad](/source/Trinidad) player through and through.

## Biography

Ben Sealey was born in [Trinidad](/source/Trinidad), at [St. Joseph](/source/Saint_Joseph,_Trinidad_and_Tobago). He was into his mid-twenties by the time his [first-class](/source/First-class_cricket) career started but in [1933](/source/West_Indian_cricket_team_in_England_in_1933) he was selected to tour England with a West Indian team captained by [Jackie Grant](/source/Jackie_Grant). His tour was both busy, in terms of matches played, and reasonably successful with both bat and ball. From 22 first-class matches – he also played in 12 minor matches – Sealey scored 1,072 runs at an average of 39.70 and took 19 [wickets](/source/Wickets) at 38.15 apiece. He was picked to play in the third and final [Test](/source/Test_cricket) of the series, the only Test of his career, and was [West Indies](/source/West_Indies_cricket_team)' top scorer in the first [innings](/source/Innings), hitting 29 from a total of 100. He scored 12 runs in the second innings and took one wicket, that of [Fred Bakewell](/source/Fred_Bakewell), for 10 runs in England's only innings. His scored three centuries on the tour: 103 against [Worcestershire](/source/Worcestershire_County_Cricket_Club) at [Worcester](/source/Worcester,_England), 105 not out against [Glamorgan](/source/Glamorgan_County_Cricket_Club) at [Swansea](/source/Swansea) and 106 not out against the [Army](/source/British_Army_cricket_team) at [Aldershot](/source/Aldershot).[1]

The highest score of his first-class career came at [Bridgetown](/source/Bridgetown) in January 1939 when he hit 116 against the hosts, Barbados, to help Trinidad to a victory by an innings and 19 runs.[2] He twice took five wickets in an innings: five for 22 at Bridgetown for Trinidad against Barbados in January 1932 and five for 26 at Port-of-Spain for Trinidad against the touring [Marylebone Cricket Club](/source/Marylebone_Cricket_Club) in January 1935.[3][4]

Sealey's death on 12 September 1963 in [Port-of-Spain](/source/Port-of-Spain), Trinidad, aged 64, went unreported in cricket circles and no obituary of him appeared in *[Wisden](/source/Wisden_Cricketer's_Almanack)*.

## References

1. ["West Indies in England, 1933"](http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1930S/1933/WI_IN_ENG/). *Cricinfo*. Retrieved 7 July 2020.

1. ["Barbados v Trinidad 1938-39"](http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1930S/1938-39/WI_LOCAL/BDOS_TRINIDAD_07-10JAN1939.html). *Cricinfo*. Retrieved 7 July 2020.

1. ["Barbados v Trinidad 1931-32"](http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1930S/1931-32/WI_LOCAL/INTER-COL/BDOS_TRINIDAD_INTER-COL_16-20JAN1932.html). *Cricinfo*. Retrieved 7 July 2020.

1. ["Trinidad v MCC 1934-35"](http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1930S/1934-35/ENG_IN_WI/MCC_TRINIDAD_19-22JAN1935.html). *Cricinfo*. Retrieved 7 July 2020.

## Sources

1. *World Cricketers - A Biographical Dictionary* by Christopher Martin-Jenkins, published by Oxford University Press (1996).
1. *The Wisden Book of Test Cricket, Volume 1 (1877–1977)*, compiled and edited by Bill Frindall, Headline Book Publishing (1995).
1. *The Complete Record of West Indian Test Cricketers* by Bridgette Lawrence & Ray Goble, ACL & Polar Publishing (UK) Ltd. (1991).

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