Mervyn Grell

{{short description|West Indian cricketer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Mervyn Grell

| image =

| caption =

| fullname = Mervyn George Grell

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1899|12|18|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Trinidad

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1976|1|11|1899|12|18|df=yes}}

| death_place = Cocorite, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Right-arm medium

| columns = 2

| column1 = Tests

| matches1 = 1

| runs1 = 34

| bat avg1 = 17.00

| 100s/50s1 = 0/0

| top score1 = 21

| deliveries1 = 30

| wickets1 = 0

| bowl avg1 = –

| fivefor1 = 0

| tenfor1 = 0

| best bowling1 = –

| catches/stumpings1= 1/0

| column2 = First-class

| matches2 = 10

| runs2 = 489

| bat avg2 = 28.76

| 100s/50s2 = 0/4

| top score2 = 74*

| deliveries2 = 360

| wickets2 = 5

| bowl avg2 = 34.39

| fivefor2 = 0

| tenfor2 = 0

| best bowling2 = 2/14

| catches/stumpings2= 3/0

| international = true

| country = West Indies

| testdebutfor =

| testdebutagainst = England

| testdebutdate = 1 February

| testdebutyear = 1930

| lasttestdate = 1 February

| testcap = 24

| lasttestfor =

| lasttestagainst =

| lasttestyear = 1930

| onetest = true

| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/mervyn-grell-51903 Cricinfo

| date = 31 May 2023

}}

Mervyn George Grell (18 December 1899 – 11 January 1976) was a West Indian cricketer who played in one Test in 1930.

Mervyn Grell served with the Honourable Artillery Company in Italy during World War I,{{cite web |title=Alphabetical listing of the 17 Merchants & Planters Contingents |url=http://caribbeanrollofhonour-ww1-ww2.yolasite.com/alphabeticallisting-merchants-and-planters-ww1.php |website=Caribbean Roll of Honour |accessdate=2 October 2020}} and with the Local Trinidad Regiment in World War II.

A hard-hitting lower-order batsman and a medium-pace bowler, Grell played only a handful of first-class matches between 1930 and 1937. The first two were for Trinidad against the visiting MCC in 1929–30. On his debut, played at Port-of-Spain in January 1930, he scored 40 and 54 batting at number 9 and 8 respectively; he top-scored in Trinidad's first innings and was their second-highest scorer in the second. He also took the wickets of Nigel Haig and Les Townsend in the visitors' second innings, both players caught by wicketkeeper Errol Hunte.{{cite web |title=Trinidad v MCC 1929-30 (I) |url=http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1920S/1929-30/ENG_IN_WI/MCC_TRINIDAD_22-25JAN1930.html|website=Cricinfo |accessdate=28 November 2018}} In his second match a few days later, also against MCC in Port-of-Spain, Grell was asked to captain Trinidad, and followed a duck in the first innings with the top score of the match in the second, 34 not out, when he led a rearguard action that almost brought victory.{{cite web |title=Trinidad v MCC 1929-30 (II) |url=http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1920S/1929-30/ENG_IN_WI/MCC_TRINIDAD_27-29JAN1930.html |website=Cricinfo |accessdate=28 November 2018}}

On the basis of his three good scores against the English team, and because he lived in Port-of Spain, Grell was selected to play in the Second Test against England, played at Port-of-Spain in February 1930. He scored 21 and 13 in West Indies' defeat.{{cite web |title=2nd Test, England tour of West Indies at Port of Spain, Feb 1-6 1930 |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/17590/scorecard/62577/west-indies-vs-england-2nd-test-england-tour-of-west-indies-1929-30 |website=Cricinfo |accessdate=17 November 2018}}

In all first-class matches, Grell recorded his highest score, 74 not out, in his last, played at Bourda, Georgetown, against British Guiana in 1937.

Grell was also an international football referee.{{cite web |title=Trinidad Defeat Barbados, 3—1 In Inter-Colony Soccer |url=http://www.ttfootballhistory.com/node/661 |website=Trinidad and Tobago Football History |accessdate=17 November 2018}}