Topspin vs Googly - What's the difference?
topspin | googly |
A rotational motion, especially that given to a ball, in which the upper surface spins in the direction of motion.
To spin (a ball) with this motion.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 27, author=John Branch, title=His Next Line to Cross, work=New York Times
, passage=He could keep winning through attrition, with a relentless barrage of topspinning ground strokes and a tireless defense of his own side, where would-be winners go to die. }}
(cricket) A ball, bowled by a leg break bowler, that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery.
* 1904 , , How We Recovered the Ashes'', quoted in Sidney J. Baker, ''The Australian Language , second edition, 1966, chapter XI, section 4, page 248:
Of the eyes, bulging.
As nouns the difference between topspin and googly
is that topspin is a rotational motion, especially that given to a ball, in which the upper surface spins in the direction of motion while googly is a ball, bowled by a leg break bowler, that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery.As a verb topspin
is to spin (a ball) with this motion.As an adjective googly is
of the eyes, bulging.topspin
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* (wikipedia "topspin")googly
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(wikipedia googly) (googlies)- can bowl as badly as anyone in the world; but when he gets a length, those slow googlies , as the Australian players call them, are apt to paralyse the greatest players.