By Jacob Savill
1George Gunn
In 1907/08, Nottinghamshire batsman George Gunn was in Australia for health reasons, recovering from a haemorrhage of the lungs. The sun, his friends agreed, would do him the world of good. The best medicine, however, turned out to be of a wholly difierent kind. That winter, MCC were touring Australia, and after sudden illness to their captain, Arthur Jones, Gunn was suddenly called in as replacement batsman. With his health clearly returning, he made scores of 119 and 74 in the first Test, at Sydney, and would go on to play the entire series.