Mystery spinner : the story of Jack Iverson / Gideon Haigh.
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TextSeries: Text classicsPublisher: Melbourne : Text Publishing, 2017Copyright date: ©1999Description: xiv, 376 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781925603217; 1925603210Subject(s): Iverson, Jack, 1915- | Cricket players -- Australia -- Biography | Cricket -- BowlingDDC classification: 796.35822092 Summary: 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.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult Nonfiction | B/ IVE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111071018178 |
Originally published: 2000.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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