Bernard Bosanquet (cricketer)
Bernard James Tindal Bosanquet was an English cricketer best known for inventing the googly, a delivery designed to deceive the batsman. When bowled, it appears to be a leg break, but after pitching the ball turns in the opposite direction to that which is expected, behaving as an off break instead. Bosanquet, who played first-class cricket for Middlesex between 1898 and 1919, appeared in seven Test matches for England as an all-rounder. He was chosen as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1905.
Portrait by George Beldam, c. 1905
Main gate of Oriel College which Bosanquet attended between 1897 and 1900
Bosanquet's bowling action for the leg break, photographed by George Beldam in 1906
Bosanquet's batting stance, photographed by George Beldam in 1905
Leg spin is a type of spin bowling in cricket. A leg spinner bowls right-arm with a wrist spin action. The leg spinner's normal delivery causes the ball to spin from right to left when the ball bounces on the pitch. For a right-handed batter, that is away from the leg side, and this is where it gets the name leg break.
Mason Crane bowling a leg break during the 2017–18 Ashes series
Shane Warne bowling a leg spin delivery