John McMullan (cricketer)

John James Morrell McMullan (23 April 1893 – 28 April 1967) was a New Zealand cricketer who played 32 games of first-class cricket for Otago from 1918 to 1930.

A batsman and occasional wicket-keeper, McMullan made his first-class debut against Southland in 1917–18. Batting at number four, he made 157 not out, including 22 fours, of the team's total of 313.[1] Otago won by an innings.[2] In his next first-class match, against Wellington two years later, he made 85 not out and 25.[3] He thus scored 267 runs in his first-class career before being dismissed, setting a world first-class record which was not broken until 1946, when Sam Loxton scored 305 runs before being dismissed.[4]

The rest of his career was steady, and included two more centuries, both in the Plunket Shield: 111 against Wellington in 1923–24 (one of seven centuries in the match)[5] and 131 (after 51 in the first innings) against Auckland in 1927–28.[6]