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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.

References

1. "First-Class Matches played by David Mantell". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
2. "First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by David Mantell". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
3. "David Mantell : Obituary". Archived from the original on 23 March 2017. Retrieved 22 March 2017.

External links

• David Mantell at ESPNcricinfo
• David Mantell at CricketArchive

• 1934 births
• 2017 deaths
• People from Acton, London
• Cricketers from the London Borough of Ealing
• English cricketers
• Sussex cricketers
• Wicket-keepers