10 cricket terms you have probably never heard of

The terms associated with the gentlemen’s game of cricket are quite extraordinary. Fielding positions like third man, long on, silly point, square leg are not only confusing but also funny. But there are a few terms that even the most ardent fan would probably turn his nose up at or have a quiet laugh about. Here are few of them:

1. Bosie

Abdul Qadir of Pakistan was one of the greatest leg spinners

The ‘Bosie’ or the ‘Bosey’ is another name for googly. It’s a type of delivery bowled by right arm leg spinners; a variation that turns into the right-hander and away from the left-hander.

Bosie is named in honour of its inventor, an English cricketer Bernard Bosanquet.  The delivery is also known by the term wrong’un.

Pakistani cricketer Abdul Qadir in the 1980s was known to bowl the googly, or the bosie, very effectively.