David Mantell

{{short description|English cricketer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}}

{{Use British English|date=February 2016}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name =

| country = England

| fullname = David Norman Mantell

| nickname =

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1934|7|22|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Acton, Middlesex, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2017|1|26|1934|7|22|df=yes}}

| death_place = Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England

| heightft =

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| batting = Right-handed

| bowling =

| role = Wicket-keeper

| family =

| club1 = Sussex

| year1 = 1954–1958

| clubnumber1 =

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 26

| runs1 = 150

| bat avg1 = 6.00

| 100s/50s1 = –/–

| top score1 = 34

| deliveries1 = –

| wickets1 = –

| bowl avg1 = –

| fivefor1 = –

| tenfor1 = –

| best bowling1 = –

| catches/stumpings1 = 28/2

| date = 13 March

| year = 2012

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/17314.html Cricinfo

}}

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.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31204/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by David Mantell|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=13 March 2012}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31204/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by David Mantell|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=13 March 2012}} 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.{{Cite web |url=http://announce.jpress.co.uk/hastings-observer-group/obituary/david-mantell/49116257 |title=David Mantell : Obituary |access-date=22 March 2017 |archive-date=23 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170323052717/http://announce.jpress.co.uk/hastings-observer-group/obituary/david-mantell/49116257 |url-status=dead }}