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. 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, In List A cricket, he made five appearances, with three coming in the Benson & Hedges Cup and two in the John Player League. He took 32 catches behind the stumps, as well as making 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. Behind the stumps he took 40 catches. 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.