Ernest Bodell

{{Short description|Irish cricketer (1928-2003)}}

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{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Ernest Bodell

| image =

| caption =

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Right-arm fast-medium

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 5

| runs1 = 25

| bat avg1 = 6.25

| 100s/50s1 = 0/0

| top score1 = 11*

| deliveries1 = 1,026

| wickets1 = 11

| bowl avg1 = 42.18

| fivefor1 = 0

| tenfor1 = 0

| best bowling1 = 4/27

| catches/stumpings1= 1/–

| international = true

| country = Ireland

| source = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/26/26702/26702.html CricketArchive

| date = 6 December

| year = 2022

}}

Ernest Herbert Bodell (17 August 1928 – 16 October 2003) was an Irish cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler.

He made his debut for Ireland in a first-class match against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in September 1954. He went on to play for Ireland on six occasions; four further first-class matches against Scotland, the last of which came in June 1959, and a non-first-class match against the MCC at Lord's in August 1957.

As a managing director of Guinness brewery he was at the forefront of business in Ireland ranging from his involvement with Guinness and Murphy's brewery, to the fishing community.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}

Bodell was married to "Mo" and was father to three daughters, Jane, Olga, and Phillipa, and later a grandfather to eleven children.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}