[SOC] Oo clocks and The Ashes.

[Lloyd Lachow]

--- Paul Bartlett <paul@fulking.freeserve.co.uk>
wrote:
> >
> >   ...is that anything like a wicked googly?
> >
> No, no, no!
> 
> The googly is when a leg-spinner (who habitually
> bowls balls that break away
> from the batsmen thus hoping for a thin-edge and a
> catch) delivers the ball
> from the back of the hand thus spinning it 
Muralitharan is widely
> regarded as being the
> best exponent of this style.


wait up, what about Shane Warne? Not to mention Anil
Kumble and Mustaq Ahmed. Great googly bowlers.



> 
> Of course, with a left-handed batsman, all the terms
> reverse since leg
> becomes off and off becomes leg. If you also throw
> in a left arm spinner
> then things start to become complicated.

That's when you look to the Daniel Vettoris and Sunil
Joshis of the world, I imagine, Bishen Singh Bedi
being out of the picture.


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