James Mackay (cricketer)

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James Mackay (cricketer) - Wikipedia

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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

Nickname

Sunny Jim

Batting

Right-handed

Domestic team information

Years

Team

1902/03–1905/06

New South Wales

1906/07

Transvaal

Career statistics

Competition	First-class
Matches	20
Runs scored	1,556
Batting average	50.19
100s/50s	6/7
Top score	203
Catches/stumpings	5/—

Source: CricketArchive, 26 January 2009

James Rainey Munro Mackay (9 September 1880 – 13 June 1953), better known as "Sunny Jim" Mackay, 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]

Cricket career

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.^[1]

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.^[2] His eyesight was damaged when a motorbike knocked him down and his brief but dazzling career was cut short.^[3]

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.^[3] 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.

Personal life

Mackay married Catherine Crawford near Walcha in March 1913.^[4] He worked on farms in the New England region and for a time at Cunnamulla in Queensland. He and his wife then acquired a farm near Walcha, which they worked until he became ill. He died in hospital in Walcha in June 1953 after a heart attack, aged 72.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket, Oxford, Melbourne, 1996, p. 321.
^ ^a ^b Wisden 1954, p. 928.
^ ^a ^b ^c "The Passing of 'Sunny Jim' Mackay". The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser: 14. 19 June 1953.
^ "Gossip of the Game". Sydney Sportsman: 7. 16 April 1913.

External links

James Mackay at ESPNcricinfo

Australian first-class cricket season leading run-scorers (1900–01 to 1949–50)

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: –
1918–19: Armstrong
1919–20: Park
1920–21: Hendren
1921–22: O'Keeffe
1922–23: Chapman
1923–24: Ponsford
1924–25: Sutcliffe
1925–26: A. 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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1900–01 to 1949–50
1950–51 to 1999–2000
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1900–01 to 1949–50
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