{"product_id":"mystery-spinner-isbn-9781781312742","title":"Mystery Spinner","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt is no mystery that today Jack Iverson is virtually unknown. An unexceptional estate agent who died in obscurity, by his own hand, he was a clumsy fielder and a hopeless batsman. But for four years he was the best spin bowler in the world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIverson took up cricket, at the advanced age of 31, as capriciously as he left it – joining a club 3rd XI in Melbourne one day, and instantly announcing himself as the most prodigious and improbably spinner of a cricket ball. Using a technique that he appears to have perfected with a ping-pong ball, he doubled back his middle finger and found he could bowl leg breaks, top spinners and googlies, every one dropped on a perfect length and impossible to pick.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin four years he was bowling the Australian Test side to victory over England in the Ashes series of 1950-51. Then, in his moment of triumph, he retired from international cricket, and was never the same bowler again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGideon Haigh’s quest for the truth about this enigmatic, elusive man, with the strangest grip any spinner had ever used, is not just a story of a forgotten hero, but an attempt to solve the enduring riddle of Iverson’s life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the \u003ci\u003eWilliam Hill Sports Book of the Year\u003c\/i\u003e, and voted \u003ci\u003eCricket Book of the Year\u003c\/i\u003e, with the judges commending a 'stunning and most moving book',\u003ci\u003e Mystery Spinner\u003c\/i\u003e is a truly compelling study of how, at the highest level of sport, skill is only half the battle.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aurum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48241675010277,"sku":"NP9781781312742","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781781312742_e2405864-f181-484a-9466-462318f8c28a.jpg?v=1771872329","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/mystery-spinner-isbn-9781781312742","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}