What is a googly?

What is a googly?

Normally a right-arm leg spin bowler turns the ball from right to left; that is from the leg side to offside of a right-hand batsman who is facing the ball. This ball is called a leg break. Googly is turned in the opposite direction. That is , Googly is a ball bowled by a right-arm wrist-spin bowler that breaks from off to leg. The googly is associated with the name of Bosanquet, who played for Oxford, Middlesex. He is said to have used it first in 1900. Although earlier players may have used the technique, it was Bosanquet who gave perfection to the delivery and used it regularly. As to how this word came into being, the explanation is that the googly was a ball that baffled the batsman and made him ‘goggle’ or ‘google’