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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.
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