Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In cricket, a ball which after it has pitched alters its course, or twists, as viewed by the bowler, from left to right: such a ball is said to ‘break from the off.’
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Examples
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Starting for Sussex as an off-break bowler before the first world war, his career did not really get under way for nearly a decade and he was thinking of giving up bowling when one day in 1922 he bowled a few faster balls in the nets to his captain, Arthur Gilligan, and knocked over his stumps.
Maurice Tate was a true Ashes hero but now weeds claim his grave Stephen Bates 2010
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That was achieved by Rayner in his first over with a perfectly pitched off-break that the former England left-hander edged to slip.
Sussex 245, Somerset 36-1 | County Championship day one match report 2011
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It is very difficult to read Murali's bowling in the air because, unlike most off-spinners, the ball always has a scrambled seam, whether it is a doosra or an off-break.
Muralitharan the game-changer spells more danger for England | Duncan Fletcher 2011
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This despite a close leg-before appeal against Mr. North, and a dropped catch by Prior when Mr. Hussey edged a sharply spun off-break.
Ruthless England Claims Victory Michael Atherton 2010
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Ducat was bowled by a good length off-break and Hayward caught at second slip off a googly.
Piccadilly Jim 1928
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Almost better to play him as a straight-on bowler, as his doosra seems to have diluted his off-break.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Graeme Smith introduced Duminy into the attack shortly after and the change paid immediate dividends when his right-arm off-break did for Yuvraj Singh.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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With this drifting breeze, Mendis will fancy a leg before here, I reckon, bowling his version of the off-break to the right-hander.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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There was one more late twist, Bopara bowled by an Ashwin off-break which barely touched the bail, and Stuart Broad and Graeme Swann therefore had to finish the job.
WalesOnline - Home 2011
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There was one more late twist, Bopara bowled by an Ashwin off-break which barely touched the bail, and Stuart Broad and Graeme Swann therefore had to finish the job.
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