what is meant by googly?

Question

cricket

Answer 1

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

A googly, or a "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 your wrist 180 degrees to the ground.

It's a very difficult skill to learn, so you'll need plenty of practice in your back garden or in the nets.

Step one

Hold the ball as if you're about to bowl a normal leg break.

The top joints of the index and middle fingers should be across the seam, with the ball resting between a bent third finger and the thumb.

Step two

At the point of release, the palm of your hand should be open upwards, towards the sky, with the back of your hand facing the batsman.

Your wrist should be 180 degrees to the ground, while the seam of the ball should point towards fine leg.

Again, it should be your third finger which does most of the work, turning the ball anti-clockwise on release.

You'll probably find it goes horribly wrong the first few times you give the googly a try, but don't give up.

As the old saying goes, practice makes perfect. Use a tennis ball to help improve the flexibility of your wrist.

Answer 2

In cricket, a googly is a type of delivery bowled by a right-arm leg spin bowler. It is occasionally referred to as a Bosie (or Bosey) after its supposed inventor Bernard Bosanquet; in Australia it is commonly referred to as a wrong'un.

While a normal leg break spins from the leg to the off side, away from a right-handed batsman, a googly spins the other way, from off to leg, into a right-handed batsman. The bowler achieves this change of spin by rotating his wrist from the normal leg break delivery so that the ball rolls out the back of his hand with clockwise spin (from the bowler's point of view). A googly may also be achieved by bowling the ball as a conventional leg break, but spinning the ball further with the fingers just before it is released.

This change of wrist action can be seen by a skilled batsman and the change of spin allowed for when playing a shot at the ball. Less skilled batsmen, or ones who have lost their concentration, can be deceived completely, expecting the ball to move one direction off the pitch, only for it to move the other direction. If the batsman is expecting a leg break, he will play outside the line of the ball after it spins. This means the ball can either strike the pads for a potential lbw appeal, or may fly between the bat and the pads and hit the wicket.

The googly is a major weapon in the arsenal of a leg spin bowler, and can be one of the bowler's most effective wicket-taking balls. It is used infrequently, because its effectiveness comes mostly from its surprise value.

Left-arm unorthodox spinners, commonly known as "chinaman" bowlers, can bowl with the googly action using the left arm. This delivery is usually known as a chinaman googly and turns away from a right-handed batsman, like a leg break or left-arm orthodox spinner. The googly is similar in principle to the doosra, the ball from an off-spinner which turns the opposite way from his stock ball.

Answer 3

Googly is related with Leg Spin or say Wrist Spin Bowling.
The ball seems to be bowled with the normal Leg Spin Action but it actually Spins otherway. When a right handed bowler bowls a Googly to a right handed batsmen the batsman expecting a Leg Spin i.e., after dropping the ball should spin towards Off side but the ball spins other way or say, after dropping the ball spins into the batsman from Off side to Leg side.
In the same way for a Off Spinner its called "Doosra"

Answer 4

Googly is the best weapon for a leg spinner.It looks like a normal leg spin but when it touches the ground it turns like off spin.

Answer 5

googly means a ball which will be kept very high or very low

Answer 6

when leg spinner bowl offspinner this ball mean googly this ball is done to surprize the batsman becoz he is waiting for legspiner and the bowler ball offspin its affective weapon of legspinner to surprize anybatsman

Answer 7

Why are you asking so much questions one by one? Anil Kumble does googly. I am also gupta

Answer 8

googly is d "other one".....na i am not talkin abt d other femlae/male ....

when a leggie bowls offspin dats a googly .....
when a offie bowls legspin dats a googly ....jus got other names like doosra n stuff ..

Answer 9

if an off spiner bowls a leg spinning delivery without chaning the action of delivery. this was invented by saqlain mustaq of pakistan.
he called it as doosra.

Answer 10

well i know this girl
and she wears glasses
like realllly thick lenses
and her brother calls her ''googly eyes'
maybe it means her?