#googly

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Bradman's Farewell Duck — Hollies Bowls Him for 0 at The Oval, 1948

England v Australia

1948-08-14

On 14 August 1948 at The Oval, Don Bradman walked out to bat in his final Test innings needing only four runs to retire with a Test average of exactly 100. Eric Hollies bowled him a leg-break first ball, which Bradman defended; the second was a googly that he failed to read; it slipped between bat and pad and clipped middle and off. The Don had made a duck. The crowd rose to him; the average settled forever at 99.94, the most famous number in cricket.

#bradman#ashes#1948

⭐Explosive

Reggie Schwarz Dies of Influenza — South African Googly Pioneer, November 1918

South Africa

1918-11-18

Reginald Schwarz, the South African leg-spinner who in the 1900s helped pioneer the googly attack with Faulkner, Vogler and White, died of influenza at Étaples in northern France on 18 November 1918 — exactly one week after the Armistice. He was 43.

#reggie-schwarz#world-war-i#death

🔥Moderate

The Decline of South Africa's Googly Quartet — 1910-1914

South Africa

1914-03-01

South Africa's celebrated googly attack of Reggie Schwarz, Bert Vogler, Aubrey Faulkner and Gordon White peaked in the 1905-06 home series and on the 1907 tour of England. By 1910-14 — the period covered by the Triangular Tournament and the 1913-14 Barnes series — the foursome had broken up and South Africa had no comparable bowling resource.

#south-africa#googly#schwarz

⭐Moderate

Aubrey Faulkner — South Africa's Greatest All-rounder, Peak 1909-11

South Africa, Australia

1910-12-15

George Aubrey Faulkner of Transvaal was — by Wisden's 1910 reckoning — 'the best all-rounder in the world'. He averaged 60.55 in the 1909-10 series at home v England, then made 732 runs at 73.20 (including 204) on the 1910-11 tour of Australia, where South Africa lost the series 4-1. A googly bowler and middle-order batsman, his career spanned 1906 to 1924.

#aubrey-faulkner#south-africa#1910

⭐Moderate

Schwarz, Vogler, Faulkner, White — South Africa's Googly Bowlers Through the Decade

South Africa, England, Australia

1909-12-01

After their breakthrough 1907 tour of England, South Africa's googly quartet — Reggie Schwarz, Bert Vogler, Aubrey Faulkner and Gordon White — anchored the side through the 1909-10 home Tests against England (won 3-2 by South Africa) and the 1910-11 tour of Australia. Vogler took 36 wickets in the 1909-10 home series; Faulkner emerged as the world's best all-rounder by 1910.

#south-africa#googly#reggie-schwarz

⭐Serious

South Africa's Googly Quartet — Schwarz, Vogler, Faulkner, White, England 1907

South Africa, England

1907-07-01

South Africa's first major tour of England, in 1907, featured four wrist-spin bowlers — Reggie Schwarz, Bert Vogler, Aubrey Faulkner and Gordon White — all bowling the googly that Schwarz had learned from Bernard Bosanquet. Faulkner's 6 for 17 in 11 overs at Headingley reduced England to 76, and the tour established the googly as a global Test weapon.

#south-africa#england#1907

⭐Moderate

South Africa's First Test Tour of England — 1907 and the Googly Attack

South Africa, England

1907-07-15

South Africa's 1907 tour of England was their fourth visit but the first to include Test matches. England won the three-Test series 1-0 (with two draws), but the South African googly quartet — Reggie Schwarz, Bert Vogler, Aubrey Faulkner and Gordon White — astonished English cricket. Across the whole tour South Africa won 21 of 31 matches.

#south-africa#england#1907

⭐Serious

South Africa's First Test Win — One Wicket at Johannesburg, 1906

South Africa, England

1906-01-04

On 4 January 1906 at the Old Wanderers, Johannesburg, South Africa beat England by one wicket in the first Test of a five-match series — their first Test victory at the 12th attempt. Dave Nourse's 93 not out and Gordon White's 81 carried the home side past 284 in the fourth innings; the South African googly quartet, all on debut in the same match, took 11 wickets between them.

#south-africa#england#johannesburg

⭐Moderate

Bosanquet's Googly — Test Debut and the Birth of Wrist-Spin Variation

England, Australia

1903-12-11

On England's 1903-04 tour of Australia, Bernard Bosanquet bowled what he himself called the first googly delivered in Australia, dismissing Victor Trumper. The new delivery — a leg-break action producing an off-break — would within a decade reshape spin bowling worldwide. Bosanquet's 6 for 51 in the fourth Test at Sydney sealed the Ashes for Plum Warner's England.

#bernard-bosanquet#googly#wrist-spin

⭐Mild

How Bosanquet Invented the Googly — Twisti-Twosti and the Spinning Club

Middlesex, Leicestershire

1900-07-20

Bernard Bosanquet developed the googly — a leg-spinner's wrong'un that spins from off to leg — from a parlour game called 'Twisti-Twosti' played around 1897 with a tennis ball on a billiard table. He bowled the delivery in first-class cricket for Middlesex v Leicestershire at Lord's in July 1900, dismissing one batsman 'after four bounces'. Within five years it had revolutionised spin bowling.

#bernard-bosanquet#googly#twisti-twosti