Batting style Right-hand bat Role Cricket Player Name Percy Mansell | National side South Africa Bowling style Legbreak googly Died May 9, 1995 | |
Percy Neville Frank Mansell MBE (16 March 1920 – 9 May 1995) was a Rhodesian cricketer who played in thirteen Tests for South Africa from 1951 to 1955.
Mansell was a bespectacled middle-order batsman, slips fieldsman, and leg-break and googly bowler who sometimes bowled medium-pace. Born in England, Mansell moved to Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) as an infant. He was educated at Milton High School and first played for Rhodesia aged 18 against the MCC in Bulawayo, scoring 62. He represented Rhodesia 55 times before retiring in 1960.
After retiring from the game he served as a cricket administrator in Rhodesia. He was awarded the MBE "for services to cricket in Southern Rhodesia" in the 1962 New Year Honours.
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