James MacDonnell

Background

He was born in Ireland and died in Brighton.

Career

MacDonnell made a single first-class appearance for the team, during the 1881 season, against Surrey, having played for the Gentlemen of Hampshire twenty-one years previously.

Achievements

• In the only first-class innings in which MacDonnell batted, he scored a duck, in a match which Gloucestershire won by an innings margin in spite of four members of the Gloucestershire team failing to register a run.