The forgotten case of Rex Sellers
Though Australia are not as well known as other countries for their cricketers having alien roots, Russell Jackson, in his blog at the Guardian points out a few examples Scyld Berry seemed to have overlooked.
He would also know that Rex Sellers, a British passport-holding, Indian-born leg-spinner who played Test cricket for Australia prompted no small measure of angst within the English cricketing press when chosen in the Australian Ashes squad of 1964. In response, the cricket-loving prime minister Robert Menzies fast-tracked Sellers's citizenship at a rate that, all these years later, makes Fawad Ahmed's blessing from the Gillard government look like a glacial drift