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Mystery Spinner: The Story of Jack Iverson
Author(s): Gideon Haigh (Author)
- Publisher: Aurum Press
- Publication Date: 1 May 2000
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 376 pages
- ISBN-10: 1854107143
- ISBN-13: 9781854107145
Book Description
The extraordinary and short career of Jack Iverson is the subject of this biography. Iverson was a hopeless fielder and batsman but for four short years he was probably the most effective spin bowler the world has, and will, ever see.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘Gideon Haigh pursues his extraordinary subject with a breadth of awareness rare in the sports-biog trade’ — New Statesman
‘Haigh leads us through Iverson’s startling progression from sub-district to Sheffield Shield and Test cricket with great vividness, taking a couple of chapters out to summarize brilliantly the evolution of bowling from the early days of under-arm and the development of swing and spin, in particular the dark arts of the googly. But this is more than just a book about a cricketer. It is a genuine biography, a serious attempt to get to the heart of a more involved mystery than the way his subject bamboozled batsmen’ —
Times Literary Supplement‘One of the best cricket biographies I have ever read … a superb book’ —
Matthew Engel, Wisden Cricket Monthly
