{{Short description|Rhodesian cricketer (1920–1995)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Percy Mansell | image = File:South African team in ANZ 1952-53.jpg | caption = The South African touring team in 1952–53.<br />Mansell is seated at the right. | fullname = Percy Neville Frank Mansell | birth_date = {{Birth date|1920|3|16|df=yes}} | birth_place = St George's, Shropshire, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1995|5|9|1920|3|16|df=y}} | death_place = Somerset West, Cape Province, South Africa | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Leg-break googly | columns = 2 | column1 = Tests | matches1 = 13 | runs1 = 355 | bat avg1 = 17.75 | 100s/50s1 = 0/2 | top score1 = 90 | deliveries1 = 1506 | wickets1 = 11 | bowl avg1 = 66.90 | fivefor1 = 0 | tenfor1 = 0 | best bowling1 = 3/58 | catches/stumpings1= 15/- | column2 = First-class | matches2 = 113 | runs2 = 4598 | bat avg2 = 29.66 | 100s/50s2 = 5/33 | top score2 = 154 | deliveries2 = 18176 | wickets2 = 299 | bowl avg2 = 26.08 | fivefor2 = 21 | tenfor2 = 5 | best bowling2 = 7/43 | catches/stumpings2= 156/- | international = true | country = South Africa | testdebutfor = | testdebutagainst = | testdebutdate = 26 July | testdebutyear = 1951 | lasttestdate = 13 August | lasttestfor = | lasttestagainst = | lasttestyear = 1955 | source = http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/46170.html Cricinfo | date = | year = }} '''Percy Neville Frank Mansell''' MBE (16 March 1920 – 9 May 1995<ref>{{cite book |title=Wisden Cricketers' Almanack |date=1996 |chapter-url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228743.html |via=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=21 June 2024 |chapter=Obituaries in 1995}}</ref>) 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.
== Background == Born in England, Mansell moved to Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) as an infant. He was educated at Milton High School and first played first-class cricket for Rhodesia at the age of 16 against Transvaal in 1936–37.
== Career == He represented Rhodesia 55 times before retiring after the 1961–62 season, having played his last match just before his 42nd birthday.<ref name="Winch">{{citation| year=1983|author=Jonty Winch|title=Cricket's Rich Heritage: A History of Rhodesian and Zimbabwean Cricket 1890–1982|publisher=Books of Zimbabwe|location=Bulawayo|page=220}}</ref>
His best first-class bowling figures were 7 for 43 (13 for 120 in the match) in Rhodesia's two-run victory over the touring Surrey team in 1959–60.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/23/23818.html| title = Rhodesia v Surrey 1959–60| publisher = CricketArchive|url-access=subscription | accessdate =24 March 2018}}</ref> His two highest scores were 148 and 154, which he made in Rhodesia's two innings victories over Griqualand West in the B Section of the Currie Cup in 1955–56.<ref>''Wisden'' 1957, pp. 874–75.</ref>
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.<ref>''Supplement to the London Gazette'', 1 January 1962, p. 23.</ref>
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==External links== * [http://rhodesiansportprofiles.blogspot.com.au/2012_01_01_archive.html Portrait and brief biography of Percy Mansell (scroll down)] * [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/46170.html Percy Mansell at Cricinfo] * [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/899/899.html Percy Mansell at Cricket Archive]
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