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Chargement... Mystery Spinner: The Story of Jack Iversonpar Gideon Haigh
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. One liner - a magnificent work, IMO, the finest of Haigh. ( ) These days one only comes across the name Jack Iverson in tables showing cricketers who have taken wickets at ludicrously low averages. But this man, in his short career, attracted a lot of attention and his mystery spin bowling technique, even more. Gideon Haigh is a very good writer, particularly on cricket, and while "Mystery Spinner" is not his best work, it is a good read about a cricketer I knew precious little about. We get an exhaustive look at Iverson's upbringing, his almost non-existent junior cricketing career (Haigh questions whether any other Test player has as poor a junior career as Iverson), his war duties and on to his brief Test cricketing career, all the while looking for clues that would explain his later suicide by shotgun. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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