This person once said “ It is merely a ball with an ordinary break produced by an extraordinary method”.Who i

Question

This person once said “ It is merely a ball with an ordinary break produced by an extraordinary method”.Who is this cricketer and what is he talking about. That particular type of delivery bears his name too. What is it?

Answer 1

Bernard James Tindal Bosanquet!

Answer 2

Bernard Bosanquet. He invented the googly

Answer 3

Full name Bernard James Tindal Bosanquet

Born October 13, 1877, Bulls Cross, Enfield, Middlesex

Died October 12, 1936, Wykehurst, Ewhurst, Surrey (aged 58 years 365 days)

Major teams England, Middlesex, Oxford University

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Legbreak googly

Education Eton College: Oxford University

As to the birth of the googly, Bosanquet wrote: Somewhere about the year 1897 I was playing a game with a tennis ball, known as `Twisti-Twosti.' The object was to bounce the ball on a table so that your opponent sitting opposite could not catch it... After a little experimenting I managed to pitch the ball which broke in a certain direction; then with more or less the same delivery make the next ball go in the opposite direction! I practised the same thing with a soft ball at `Stump-cricket.' From this I progressed to the cricket ball...

The googly (bowled by a right-hand bowler to a right-hand batsman) is nothing more or less that an ordinary off-break. The method of delivery is the secret of its difficulty, and this merely consisted in turning the wrist over at the moment of delivery far enough to alter the axis of spin, so that a ball which normally delivered would break from leg, breaks from the off.