A doosra (doo-srah) is a particular type of delivery by an off spin bowler in the sport of cricket. The term comes from Hindi-Urdu and in this context it means "the other one".
The bowler bowls the ball with the same finger action as a normal off break, but holds the wrist turned so the back of the hand faces towards the batsman. This gives the ball spin in the opposite direction to an off break, causing it to spin from the leg side to the off side to a right-handed batsman.
The doosra is the off spinner's equivalent of the leg spinner's googly, which also spins in the opposite direction to the bowler's stock delivery.
The doosra has been used effectively by Sri Lankan Muttiah Muralitharan and he was not the first to introduce doosra.
pgeorge
2006-04-20 17:00:25 UTC
Over the past five years, the world's top off spinners have developed the doosra to baffle batsmen.
It looks very similar to a normal off-break, but rather than spin towards the bat, it goes the other way like a leg break.
It's bowled from the back of the hand with a lot of top spin, but the wrist still moves in a clockwise direction.
It is a very difficult skill to master so you'll need plenty of practice if you want to learn how to do it.
Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan used the doosra with great effect against England.
Shockwave48
2006-04-14 07:58:37 UTC
He twists his hand with the ball in it and then lets go. This causes the ball to doosra.
maddy
2006-04-20 18:30:04 UTC
it ia atrick ball bowled by off spinner which turns from leg to off side.so iots kind of decieving to batsman.muralitharan used it first so its called doosra,,harbhajan also tries it many times
vijaysrivatsan
2006-04-17 05:45:29 UTC
he realeases teh ball to revolve in the opposite direction and teh ball turns in the opposite direction
2006-04-17 10:48:37 UTC
Its great. He was the one who started its trend
rooney8
2006-04-14 08:20:11 UTC
u kinda flick yr wrist... its hard 2 expand really.. i can kinda do it.. meaning i can make it spin but i can tget it 2 go stright
billobe1
2006-04-14 09:18:02 UTC
by chucking - he straightens his arm in the delivery
gheli_4u
2006-04-14 13:04:19 UTC
SINGLE WORDS DESCRIBES IT
CHUCKER
2006-04-19 01:09:18 UTC
He can do it cuz hes SRILANKAN.
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