TY - BOOK AU - Haigh,Gideon TI - Mystery spinner: the story of Jack Iverson T2 - Text classics SN - 9781925603217 U1 - 796.35822092 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Melbourne PB - Text Publishing KW - Iverson, Jack, KW - Cricket players KW - Australia KW - Biography KW - Cricket KW - Bowling N1 - Originally published: 2000; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - In 1950, aged in his mid-thirties, ‘tall, shy, shambling’ Jack Iverson burst forth from obscurity in suburban Melbourne, ‘bowled like no man before’ and became a national sensation, then faded from view almost as swiftly. He died in obscurity, in tragic circumstances. In the enthralling Mystery Spinner, first published in 1999, one of the world’s best cricket writers goes in search of an enigma: an ordinary man in whom lurked the extraordinary ER -