Mervyn Grell

Mervyn George Grell (18 December 1899 – 11 January 1976) was a West Indian cricketer who played in one Test in 1930.

Mervyn Grell
Personal information
Full nameMervyn George Grell
Born(1899-12-18)18 December 1899
Trinidad
Died11 January 1976(1976-01-11) (aged 76)
Cocorite, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium
International information
National side
Career statistics
Competition Tests First-class
Matches 1 10
Runs scored 34 489
Batting average 17.00 28.76
100s/50s 0/0 0/4
Top score 21 74*
Balls bowled 30 360
Wickets 0 5
Bowling average - 34.39
5 wickets in innings 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0
Best bowling - 2/14
Catches/stumpings 1/0 3/0
Source: Cricinfo

Mervyn Grell served with the Honourable Artillery Company in Italy during World War I,[1] and with the Local Trinidad Regiment in World War II.

A hard-hitting lower-order batsman and a medium-pace bowler, Mervyn Grell played only a handful of first-class matches between 1930 and 1937. The first two were for Trinidad 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.[2] 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.[3]

On the basis of his three good scores against the English team, and because he lived in Port-of Spain, he was selected to play in the Second Test against England, played at Port-of-Spain in February 1930. He scored 21 and 13 in West Indies' defeat.[4]

In all first-class matches, Grell recorded his highest score, 74 not out, in his last, played at Bourda, Georgetown, against British Guiana in 1937.

He was also an international football referee.[5]

References
  1. "Alphabetical listing of the 17 Merchants & Planters Contingents". Caribbean Roll of Honour. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  2. "Trinidad v MCC 1929-30 (I)". Cricinfo. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  3. "Trinidad v MCC 1929-30 (II)". Cricinfo. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  4. "2nd Test, England tour of West Indies at Port of Spain, Feb 1-6 1930". Cricinfo. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
  5. "Trinidad Defeat Barbados, 3—1 In Inter-Colony Soccer". Trinidad and Tobago Football History. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
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