Alan Mansell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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English cricketer
Date of Birth: 19-May-1951
Place of Birth: Redhill, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 22-Apr-2010
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Alan Mansell
- Alan William Mansell (19 May 1951 – 22 April 2010) was an English cricketer.
- Mansell was a right-handed batsman who fielded as a wicket-keeper.
- He was born at Redhill, Surrey.Starting his career when Jim Parks, Jr.
- was still Sussex's first choice wicket-keeper, Mansell made his first-class debut for the county against Cambridge University in 1969 at the County Ground, Hove.
- In 1970, he made three first-class appearances, against Gloucestershire and Middlesex in the County Championship, as well as against the touring Jamaicans.
- He made two further first-class appearances in the 1971 County Championship, both against Hampshire, as well as playing against Cambridge University.
- His second appearance against Hampshire at the United Services Recreation Ground, Portsmouth, saw him record his maiden half century, with a score of 51.
- He didn't feature in first-class cricket in the 1972 season, but did make his List A debut against Worcestershire in the first round of the 1972 Gillette Cup.He featured more in the 1973 season, with Jim Parks, Jr.
- having left Sussex at the end of the previous season.
- He made eleven first-class appearances, ten of which came in that season's County Championship, with Mansell scoring 98 runs at an average of 8.16, with a high score of 20 not out, while behind the stumps he took 17 catches and made a single stumping.
- In List A cricket, he made five appearances, with three coming in the Benson & Hedges Cup and two in the John Player League.
- Mansell made nineteen appearances in the 1974 County Championship, as well as playing a further first-class match against Oxford University.
- He scored 470 runs at an average of 17.40, with a high score of 72 not out, which came against Somerset at the County Ground, Hove.
- He took 32 catches behind the stumps, as well as making 2 stumpings.
- In List A cricket, he made sixteen appearances, spread across the Benson & Hedges Cup, John Player League and Gillette Cup, scoring 84 runs at an average of 8.40, with a high score of 28, while behind the stumps he took 18 catches and made 2 stumpings.The 1975 season was to be his last with Sussex, with Mansell making twenty first-class appearances, the last of which came against Lancashire in that season's County Championship.
- He scored 448 runs in his final season, which came at an average of 16.00, with a high score of 52.
- One of two half centuries he made that season, this score came against Oxford University.
- Behind the stumps he took 40 catches.
- In List A cricket, he made seventeen appearances in that season which were spread across the Benson & Hedges Cup, John Player League and Gillette Cup, with his final appearance coming against Lancashire.
- He scored 70 runs in his seventeen matches, which came at an average of 7.00, with a high score of 17.
- In total, Mansell made 58 first-class appearances, scoring 1,098 runs at an average of 15.25, with a high score of 72 not out, which was one of four half centuries he made.
- Behind the stumps, he took 109 catches and 6 sumpings, This makes him Sussex's fourteenth most successful wicket-keeper in first-class cricket.
- In List A cricket, he made a total of 39 appearances, scoring 165 runs at an average of 7.17, with a high score of 28.
- Behind the stumps, he took 39 catches and made 5 stumpings.
- He is the seventh most successful wicket-keeper for Sussex in List A cricket.
- He left Sussex at the end of that season and was replaced with Surrey wicket-keeper Arnold Long. He died at Cuckfield, Sussex, on 22 April 2010, following a battle with Parkinson's disease.
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