James Mackay (cricketer)

James Mackay

Personal information

Full name

James Rainey Munro Mackay

Born

9 September 1880
Armidale, New South Wales, Australia

Died

13 June 1953 (aged 72)
Walcha, New South Wales, Australia

Batting style

Right-handed

Domestic team information

Years

Team

1902–1906

New South Wales

1906–1907

Transvaal

Career statistics

Competition	First-class
Matches	20
Runs scored	1,556
Batting average	50.19
100s/50s	6/7
Top score	203
Balls bowled	0
Wickets	—
Bowling average	—
5 wickets in innings	—
10 wickets in match	—
Best bowling	—
Catches/stumpings	5/—

Source: CricketArchive, 26 January 2009

James Rainey Munro Mackay, better known as "Sunny Jim" Mackay, (9 September 1880 – 13 June 1953) was an Australian cricketer. He was a right-handed opening batsman who was likened in his youth to Victor Trumper,^[1] and was considered unlucky to miss the 1905 Australian tour to England.^[2]

Mackay was born in Armidale, New South Wales. He scored 203, 90, 194, 105, 102* and 136 for New South Wales in the 1905/06 season, as well as six centuries for his club side, Burwood. Along with several other players he signed a contract with Melbourne Cricket Club to bring an English side to Australia and was suspended.^[3]

He moved to South Africa where, while working at a diamond mine, he scored 247 runs at 35.28 for Transvaal in 1906-07 and was only left out of the South African team to tour England in 1907 because it was felt that he had not spent long enough in the country.^[4] His eyesight was damaged when a motorbike knocked him down and his brief but dazzling career was cut short.

Mackay moved back to Sydney and tried to regain his place in the New South Wales side but his injury was too debilitating and he was forced to retire. In just 20 first class matches from 1902/03 to 1906/07, he had scored 1556 runs at 50.19 with six hundreds and seven fifties.

He worked on farms in the New England region and died in Walcha.

References

↑ The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket, Oxford, Melbourne, 1996, p. 321.
↑ Wisden 1954, p. 928.
↑ The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket, p. 321.
↑ Wisden 1954, p. 928.

External links

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1900–01: Hill 1901–02: Hill 1902–03: Duff 1903–04: Trumper 1904–05: Armstrong 1905–06: Mackay 1906–07: Hopkins 1907–08: Hardstaff 1908–09: Ransford 1909–10: Kortlang 1910–11: Faulkner 1911–12: Rhodes 1912–13: Trumper 1913–14: Macartney 1914–15: Ryder 1915–16: – 1916–17: – 1917–18: no games played 1918–19: Armstrong 1919–20: Park 1920–21: Hendren 1921–22: O'Keeffe 1922–23: Chapman 1923–24: Ponsford 1924–25: Sutcliffe 1925–26: Richardson 1926–27: Ponsford 1927–28: Ponsford 1928–29: Bradman 1929–30: Bradman 1930–31: Bradman 1931–32: Bradman 1932–33: Sutcliffe 1933–34: Bradman 1934–35: Fingleton 1935–36: Bradman 1936–37: Bradman 1937–38: Bradman 1938–39: Brown 1939–40: Bradman 1940–41: S. Barnes 1941–42: Raymer 1942–43: – 1943–44: – 1944–45: – 1945–46: S. Barnes 1946–47: Compton 1947–48: Bradman 1948–49: Morris

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