Googly

A cricket term dates from c. 1904 when it was first used in an Australian newspaper to describe the bowling of the English cricketer B.J.T. Bosanquet on the 1903-4 MCC tour to Australia. The googly or ‘wrong ‘un’ is an off-break ball bowled by a right-arm leg spinner that moves from off to leg instead of leg to off to a right-handed batsman. It tends to deceive inexperienced batsmen because it is bowled with exactly the same action as a right-arm leg break. The etymology of the word is unknown.