0 a way of bowling (= throwing) the ball in cricket so that it spins in the opposite way to what the batsman is likely to expect:
Robin Smith was deceived by Mushtaq Ahmed's googly.
He is batting on a sticky wicket against a couple of googly bowlers.
I think that was a googly.
He is an aggressive right-hand batsman and bowls a leg break googly, however, he usually occupies the position of wicketkeeper.
We even read of his apparent ability to bowl the googly in the early days.
In later years, the googly was blamed for a deterioration in the quality and attractiveness of batting.
He appeared in fifteen first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who bowled leg break and googly.
He stated that the designers quite literally searching their pockets for new ideas, sticking googly eyes on assorted office stationery before calling it a day.
He was a fastish leg-break bowler who rarely had much use for the googly.
