This delivery turns away from a right-handed batsman, like a leg break or left-arm orthodox spinner. Left-arm unorthodox spinners bowlers, can bowl with the googly action using the left arm. It is used infrequently, because its effectiveness comes mostly from its surprise value. The googly is a major weapon in the arsenal of a leg spin bowler, and can be one of the bowler's most effective most important wicket-taking balls. This means the ball can either strike the pads for a potential leg before wicket (lbw) appeal, or may fly between the bat and the pads and hit the wicket, or catch the edge of the bat. If the batsman is expecting a leg break, he will play outside the line of the ball after it spins. Less skilled batsmen, or ones who have lost their concentration, can be deceived completely, expecting the ball to move one direction off the pitch, only for it to move the other direction.
The change of wrist action can be seen by a skilled batsman and the change of spin allowed for when playing a shot at the ball. A googly may also be achieved by bowling the ball as a conventional leg break, but spinning the ball further with the fingers just before it is released. When the ball rolls out of the hand (from the side near the little finger, as in a normal leg break), it emerges with clockwise spin (from the bowler's point of view). The bowler achieves this change of spin by bending the wrist sharply from the normal leg break delivery position. While a normal leg break spins from the leg to the off side, away from a right-handed batsman, a googly spins the other side, from off to leg, into a right-handed batsman (and is distinct from an off break delivery). Reggie Schwarz, known for using the googly as his stock delivery
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