Talk:Googly

Latest comment: 14 years ago by K.Khokhar in topic Doosra was invented where??

"Back of the hand" edit

What does that actually mean? To me, the back of my hand is the oposite side to my palm. There also isn't a front of the hand for it to be clear exactly where the back of the hand is. Ian 20:28, 22 February 2007 (UTC)Reply

I've edited to clarify this a bit more. -dmmaus 23:15, 22 February 2007 (UTC)Reply

"seam parallel to the palm" edit

What does that mean? I can think of three interpretations off the top of my head. Maw 18:09, 30 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Wider use edit

What about this?

Sometimes the name googly is used to refer to any ball which breaks in the unexpected way for the particular bowler, i.e., an orthodox right-arm wrist spinner's leg break as well as a leg spinner's off break, and similarly for left-arm bowlers.[1][2]

  1. ^ My Autobiography, Dickie Bird. Dickie uses the wider sense of the term.
  2. ^ Chambers Dictionary. Googly: "an off-breaking ball with an apparent leg-break action on the part of the bowler, or conversely"

Jagdfeld (talk) 10:55, 24 April 2008 (UTC)Reply


Doosra was invented where?? edit

In pakistan! check the doosra page...Khokhar (talk) 02:02, 20 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

Even this Indian news website says it's urdu [1]Khokhar (talk) 02:31, 20 June 2009 (UTC)Reply


my new edit:

in Australia it is commonly referred to as a wrong'un (and in Pakistan as the wrong one, which led to the naming of the doosra [2] [3][4], meaning "the other one" in Urdu[5]) Khokhar (talk) 02:19, 20 June 2009 (UTC)Reply