During this and the following year I devoted a great deal of time to practising the googly at the nets, and occasionally bowled in unimportant matches. The first public recognition we obtained was in ...

The googly, a tricky pitch in cricket which turns the opposite way to a leg-break, was developed by Bernard Bosanquet, an English cricketer, in the early 1900s. Bosanquet's innovation revolutionized ...

The art of leg-spin bowling is undeniably one of the most intriguing ones in cricket. For decades, countless leg-spin bowlers have enthralled us with their guile and dexterity. Of the myriad ...

There could be no easier way to get to a hundred. Bernard Bosanquet, who had stroked his way to 136 in the first innings of the match, was tossed the ball by Middlesex skipper Plum Warner. He tossed ...

Among the several illustrious players who retired from county cricket after 1957 were D. V. P. Wright, E. Hollies and B. Dooland, who together have taken more than 5,000 wickets. The remaining ...

Googly bowlers, Dave Nourse, Percy Sherwell engineer South Africa’s first ever win in a heart-stopping Test It took them 16 years and 12 Test matches, but South Africa finally achieved their first ...

It is extremely difficult these days to make a mark for oneself as an established spin bowler unless he has a wide variety of tricks up his sleeve. It is not just enough that he bowls the conventional ...

Amelia Kerr is making her WBBL debut, in October 2019. She comes to Brisbane Heat with a big reputation. Can she live up to it? For a while, it appears as if she might not bat or bowl. And then in the ...

India defeated West Indies by six wickets in the first ODI on February 6 after Chahal picked four wickets and Rohit Sharma hit a fifty to lead the hosts' charge. AHMEDABAD: India spinner Yuzvendra ...

STUDENTS of sport's capacity for inflaming nationalist feelings might have expected trouble at the 22-nation cricket tournament just finishing in Kuala Lumpur. Among those taking part was Singapore, ...