David Norman Mantell (22 July 1934 – 26 January 2017) was an English cricketer. Mantell was a right-handed batsman who fielded as a wicket-keeper. He was born at Acton, Middlesex.
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| Full name | David Norman Mantell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 July 1934 Acton, Middlesex, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 26 January 2017 (aged 82) Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Wicket-keeper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1954–1958 | Sussex | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 13 March 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mantell made his first-class debut for Sussex against Cambridge University in 1954. He made 25 further first-class appearances for the county, the last of which came against Essex in the 1958 County Championship.[1] In his 26 first-class matches for Sussex, he scored a total of 150 runs at an average of 6.00, with a high score of 34. Behind the stumps he took 28 catches and made 2 stumpings.[2] Mantell found his opportunities limited, and when the regular Sussex wicketkeeper Rupert Webb announced he would retire from full-time cricket at the end of the 1958 season, Sussex encouraged Jim Parks, a far better batsman than Mantell, to take up wicketkeeping; that led Mantell to leave the county at the end of the 1958 season.
He died on 26 January 2017 at the age of 82.[3]
References
edit- ^ "First-Class Matches played by David Mantell". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
- ^ "First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by David Mantell". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
- ^ "David Mantell : Obituary". Archived from the original on 23 March 2017. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
External links
edit- David Mantell at ESPNcricinfo
- David Mantell at CricketArchive