James Mackay

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, and was considered unlucky to miss the 1905 Australian tour to England.

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. 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.