eadam@ELA-gdal:~$ ogrinfo --version
GDAL 2.1.0dev, released 2015/99/99
eadam@ELA-gdal:~$ ogrinfo Rd_list2.xls -sql "SELECT * FROM Rd_Num_tab WHERE FID<3"
Had to open data source read-only.
INFO: Open of `Rd_list2.xls'
      using driver `XLS' successful.

Layer name: Rd_Num_tab
Geometry: None
Feature Count: 2
Layer SRS WKT:
(unknown)
Field1: String (0.0)
Field2: String (0.0)
Field3: String (0.0)
Field4: String (0.0)
Field5: String (0.0)
Field6: String (0.0)
Field7: String (0.0)
Field8: String (0.0)
Field9: String (0.0)
Field10: String (0.0)
Field11: String (0.0)
Field12: String (0.0)
Field13: String (0.0)
Field14: String (0.0)
Field15: String (0.0)
Field16: String (0.0)
Field17: String (0.0)
OGRFeature(Rd_Num_tab):1
  Field1 (String) = (null)
  Field2 (String) = (null)
  Field3 (String) = (null)
  Field4 (String) = (null)
  Field5 (String) = (null)
  Field6 (String) = (null)
  Field7 (String) = (null)
  Field8 (String) = (null)
  Field9 (String) = (null)
  Field10 (String) = (null)
  Field11 (String) = (null)
  Field12 (String) = (null)
  Field13 (String) = (null)
  Field14 (String) = (null)
  Field15 (String) = (null)
  Field16 (String) = (null)
  Field17 (String) = (null)

OGRFeature(Rd_Num_tab):2
  Field1 (String) = (null)
  Field2 (String) = (null)
  Field3 (String) = (null)
  Field4 (String) = (null)
  Field5 (String) = (null)
  Field6 (String) = (null)
  Field7 (String) = (null)
  Field8 (String) = (null)
  Field9 (String) = (null)
  Field10 (String) = (null)
  Field11 (String) = (null)
  Field12 (String) = (null)
  Field13 (String) = (null)
  Field14 (String) = (null)
  Field15 (String) = (null)
  Field16 (String) = (null)
  Field17 (String) = (null)

eadam@ELA-gdal:~$ ogrinfo Rd_list2.xls -sql "SELECT * FROM Sheet2"Had to open data source read-only.
INFO: Open of `Rd_list2.xls'
      using driver `XLS' successful.

Layer name: Sheet2
Geometry: None
Feature Count: 1
Layer SRS WKT:
(unknown)
Field1: String (0.0)
OGRFeature(Sheet2):1
  Field1 (String) = (null)

eadam@ELA-gdal:~$ ogrinfo Rd_list2.xls -sql "SELECT * FROM Sheet3"
Had to open data source read-only.
INFO: Open of `Rd_list2.xls'
      using driver `XLS' successful.

Layer name: Sheet3
Geometry: None
Feature Count: 1
Layer SRS WKT:
(unknown)
Field1: String (0.0)
OGRFeature(Sheet3):1
  Field1 (String) = (null)

eadam@ELA-gdal:~$ ogrinfo Rd_list2.xls -sql "SELECT * FROM Sheet3" --debug on
GDAL: GDALOpen(Rd_list2.xls, this=0x8d13b00) succeeds as XLS.
Had to open data source read-only.
INFO: Open of `Rd_list2.xls'
      using driver `XLS' successful.

Layer name: Sheet3
Geometry: None
Feature Count: 1
Layer SRS WKT:
(unknown)
Field1: String (0.0)
OGRFeature(Sheet3):1
  Field1 (String) = (null)

GenSQL: 1 features read on layer 'Sheet3'.
OGR: GetLayerCount() = 3

GDAL: GDALClose(Rd_list2.xls, this=0x8d13b00)
eadam@ELA-gdal:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Release:	14.04
Codename:	trusty