Percy Mansell

Percy Neville Frank Mansell MBE (16 March 1920 – 9 May 1995[1]) 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.

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.

[2] 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.

[3] 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.