Mervyn George Grell (18 December 1899 – 11 January 1976) was a
West Indian cricket
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er who played in one
Test in 1930.
Mervyn Grell served with the
Honourable Artillery Company in Italy during
World War I
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, and with the Local Trinidad Regiment in
World War II
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.
A hard-hitting lower-order
batsman and a medium-pace
bowler, Grell played only a handful of first-class matches between 1930 and 1937. The first two were for
Trinidad
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against the visiting
MCC in 1929–30. On his debut, played at
Port-of-Spain in January 1930, he scored 40 and 54 batting at number 9 and 8 respectively; he top-scored in Trinidad's first innings and was their second-highest scorer in the second. He also took the wickets of
Nigel Haig and
Les Townsend in the visitors' second innings, both players caught by wicketkeeper
Errol Hunte. In his second match a few days later, also against MCC in Port-of-Spain, Grell was asked to captain Trinidad, and followed a
duck in the first innings with the top score of the match in the second, 34 not out, when he led a rearguard action that almost brought victory.
On the basis of his three good scores against the English team, and because he lived in Port-of Spain, Grell was selected to play in the Second Test against
England
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, played at Port-of-Spain in February 1930. He scored 21 and 13 in West Indies' defeat.
In all first-class matches, Grell recorded his highest score, 74 not out, in his last, played at
Bourda,
Georgetown, against
British Guiana
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The first known Europeans to encounter Guia ...
in 1937.
Grell was also an international
football referee.
References
External links
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Mervyn Grellat CricketArchive
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1899 births
1976 deaths
West Indies Test cricketers
Trinidad and Tobago cricketers
Honourable Artillery Company soldiers