Mystery Spinner: Text Classics
By Gideon Haigh
Introduced by Russell Jackson
No one replicated Jack’s methods with anything like his success...For sheer originality, scarcely anyone in cricket’s history comes even close.
In 1950 ‘tall, shy, shambling’ thirty-something Jack Iverson burst forth from obscurity in suburban Melbourne, ‘bowled like no man before’ and became an international sensation—then exited from view almost as swiftly. Two decades later he died, near forgotten, in tragic circumstances. In the enthralling Mystery Spinner one of the world’s best cricket writers goes in search of an enigma: an ordinary man in whom lurked the extraordinary.
‘Sympathetic yet rigorous...Wonderful writing...A classic.’ Sunday Times
The visionary Diana Gribble founded Text in 1990. She wanted to create an independent publishing house that would find books to enlighten, challenge and entertain us. In keeping with this vision, Text Classics are books by our most loved writers who tell our stories.