| Country: | England |
| Fullname: | David Norman Mantell |
| Birth Date: | 22 July 1934 |
| Birth Place: | Acton, Middlesex, England |
| Death Place: | Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Role: | Wicket-keeper |
| Club1: | Sussex |
| Year1: | 1954 - 1958 |
| 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.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3]