Googly comes down by the hip, and the wrist moves sharply from right to left as the ball is released, adding more spin. The ball is tossed up to provide flight. The batsman will see the back of the hand when the ball is released. In a scene from John Boorman’s 1987 film "Hope and Glory", David Hayman plays a father who, before leaving to fight in WWII, passes on ‘the secret of the googly’ to his young son. Googly In cricket, a googly is a type of deceptive delivery bowled by a right-arm leg spin bowler. In Australia, it is
Bowled an appeal to the umpire; a bowled batsman will usually acknowledge the dismissal voluntarily. If the delivered ball deflects off the bat, and bowls the batter, then the informal term is known as "played on", "knocked on" or "dragged on". If the wicket is put down without the batter making any sort of contact with the ball, then it is known as "clean bowled" with variations being 'bowled through the gate', where the ball travels between the bat and pad, or 'bowled around the legs', where the ball goes behind (to the legside of) the batsman and hits the stumps.