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A googly is a delivery of the ball to the batsman where the spin on the ball causes it to break in the opposite direction to that anticipated.

The leg-spinner's prize weapon - bowled properly, a googly is almost undetectable.

A googly, or "wrong'un", is a delivery which looks like a normal leg-spinner but actually turns towards the batsmen, like an off-break, rather than away from the bat.

Unlike a normal leg-break, a googly is delivered out of the back of the hand, with the wrist 180 degrees to the ground.

I actually had to look that one up because of course I was using a form of rhyming slang and was referring to an altogether different kind of ball.
 


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