Playing against England, in the home Ashes series of 1950–51, Iverson led the Australian bowling averages with 21 wickets at 15.24 runs per wicket. Bamboozling the Poms, in one Test he got 6 for 27. A little known fact is that Jack Iverson’s highest score in all five Tests was 1 not out.

A famous old club: A History of the Brighton Cricket Club by David King

Brighton Cricket Club,

Reviewed by Ross Fitzgerald

Until I started drinking alcoholically at the age of 14 , my teetotal, non-smoking, sportsman father Bill (“Long Tom”) Fitzgerald was my hero.

After playing cricket as a wicketkeeper for Collingwood and Aussie Rules football in the Victorian Football League – where he was the long-standing captain of the Collingwood reserves, Dad became captain-coach of Sandringham in the Victorian Football Association.

He also was wicketkeeper for Sandringham’s first eleven as well. Later on, at a lower level, he played cricket for Sandringham in the Victorian Junior Cricket Association (VJCA).

As a youngster, I followed my father’s cricketing example. While in fourth form at Melbourne Boys High School (where iconic ex-Australian captain Bill Woodfull was our principal), as a wicketkeeper I represented Victoria in the Australian Schoolboys championship.

It was while playing for Victorian schoolboys at the Adelaide Oval that I met Don Bradman, who struck me as extremely grumpy. When I was still only 14, on one occasion Dad and I put on a 50 partnership while........

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