googly

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It's worth remembering that the first two Indian bowlers to make a mark in the international arena were Mohammad Nissar and Amar Singh, neither known for the googly or loopy off break.

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  1. a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way.

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  1. a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way

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  • I don't know if you'll recall the cats Greg and Spiderman, who I adopted out a little over a year ago (Greg was a huge, grey, majestic lion, and Spiderman was a googly-eyed blind dude who enjoyed singing). —  The Blog Pound
  • Hence, a bowler could be classified as LF, meaning he is a left arm fast bowler; or as LBG, meaning he is a right arm spin bowler who bowls deliveries that are called a "leg break" and a "googly"! —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Players control the namesake Munchables, "a hungry race of googly-eyed, brightly colored things that must defend themselves against Don Onion and his Space Pirates by eating them." —  Geek.com
  • Details, reporter Heather Chaplin got all googly-eyed about the iminlikewithyou. com. —  Home | The New York Observer
  • The constant googly-eyed assertions that, politically, racially, economically and otherwise, everything has changed in this nation, and that what we're witnessing is not an inauguration but a blinding flash of divine grace. —  Jules Crittenden
 

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