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If you play cricket or enjoy watching the sport, you're probably interested in learning how to bowl the doosra. Like a curve ball in baseball, this move is designed to catch the batter off guard. At first, it looks like a regular off-break, but, because of clever wrist action, it goes in a right-to-left direction. The doosra is based on the googly, which is a form of leg spin that sends the ball in a left-to-right direction.<ref name="rf1">http://news.bbc.co.uk/sportacademy/hi/sa/cricket/skills/newsid_3639000/3639179.stm</ref> To the untrained eye, both bowls look identical to each other. However, as any professional player will tell you, the secret is in the twist of the wrist. | If you play cricket or enjoy watching the sport, you're probably interested in learning how to bowl the doosra. Like a curve ball in baseball, this move is designed to catch the batter off guard. At first, it looks like a regular off-break, but, because of clever wrist action, it goes in a right-to-left direction. The doosra is based on the googly, which is a form of leg spin that sends the ball in a left-to-right direction.<ref name="rf1">http://news.bbc.co.uk/sportacademy/hi/sa/cricket/skills/newsid_3639000/3639179.stm</ref> To the untrained eye, both bowls look identical to each other. However, as any professional player will tell you, the secret is in the twist of the wrist. | ||
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