Full name David Norman Mantell Role Cricketer Name David Mantell | 1954–1958 Sussex Batting style Right-handed | |
Born 22 July 1934 (age 89) ( 1934-07-22 ) Acton, Middlesex, England | ||
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.
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. 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. 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.