Talk:Doosra

message: cant we get an animation like they have for leg spin? and how about a photo of saqlain mushtaq rather than Bhajjii 's? Daneyal007 (talk) 21:19, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Didn't the ICC try and make it private which stirred up some controversy by basically covering up the fact that some bowlers are throwing the ball? bacco007 10:03, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The word doosra comes from Urdu, and shouldnt be related to hindi. The move was invented by a Pakistani, and his language was Urdu. Please dont try to cram India in to everything Pakistan related. I dont see this happening the other way around.Unre4LITY 23:04, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Urdu 

message: Much of the section on Dan Cullen is unencyclopedic presskit/fanclub material and should probably go.  The mention of how much Cullen straigtens his arm isn't cited and doesn't mention whether this is true when he bowls his doosra, and in fact, it isn't confirmed that he even bowls one.  How about we condense this section to something like: "South Australian Dan Cullen, yet to play Test cricket, is rumoured to bowl an international-standard doosra"? Thedangerouskitchen 07:12, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dan Cullen 

message: An editor has claimed that the word Doosra is of Hindustani language. This is a lame excuse for imposing an irrelevant script as Hindustani language has split into two different languages i.e. Urdu and Hindi (based on cliams at Wikipedia). As the inventor was born in Pakistan and is a Pakistani citizen where Devangari script is as alien as dignity is to Wikipedia, therefore, addition of Devangari script is nothing but POV-pushing and an attempt to present Devangari as native to Pakistan which is wrong. Addition of Devangari is also an indirect claim over Doosra technique for India which has been the case in many other Pakistan related articles too. Such POV-pushing and false claims for India with scripts and other sneeky tactics should be stopped. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.49.116.55 (talk) 18:23, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't care whether the article has Urdu, Hindi or Swahili scripts, but if you could spend a fraction of the effort that you spend in edit-warring in improving the articles of Pakistani cricketers, they wouldn't be uniformly bad as they are now. Tintin 19:13, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well said. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.49.116.55 (talk) 21:40, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

text: Heh, a competition to get better article ratings on either India or Pakistani cricket bios....Well, I remember when Mahawiki kept on whacking Marathi tags on SRT, Tendulkar, Dravid, Agarkar, etc, and "claiming" cricketers without improving the article so that the readers can see what they actually achieved...Blnguyen  (bananabucket) 04:23, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hindi Script 

message: link to teesra? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.61.119.203 (talk) 22:15, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  teesra? 

message: http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/49636.html was previously cited, but doesn't actually verify what it's cited as a source for. I've thus removed it for the moment. A new source would be useful for that section, since that one didn't really focus on the doosra anyway... 62.30.157.187 03:14, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source for Murali section 

message: An anonymous user has added the following paragraph a number of times:
:I am not sure about the widely believed origin of the word doosra. If I remember correctly, it was during one of the test matches in Australia Mark Taylor and Tony Greig were discussing if Pakistani bowlers called this delivery by some name in their local language. Till then they called it the other one, and Tony Greig's limited Urdu language skills translated "other one" to "doosra". To me this is the origin of the word and not Moin Khan's reported use of this word.
This obviously belongs in the discussion page and not on the main page as it is an expression of opinion written in the first person. I have removed the offending paragraph. Before re-adding it or something similar, please discuss it here first and make sure to site some sources.--Siener (talk) 04:10, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origins of the word "doosra" 

message: Amol Rajan's book "Twirlymen" states that Jack Potter was bowling the doosra in the 1960s. (Mentioned in this Cricinfo review.) The Jack Potter article here on WP also states that, so we have a mismatch between that article and the "invented by ... Saqlain Mushtaq" in this one. 86.132.142.224 (talk) 18:34, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jack Potter? 

message: This sentence is both utterly ridiculous and palpably incorrect. To suggest that in over 100 years of off-spin bowling, no cricketer, neither professional nor amateur, has ever bowled a variation that went the other way off the pitch is laughable. 213.70.98.2 (talk) 08:53, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "it is unlikely that any off-spinner prior to him ever bowled a delivery which turned from leg" 

message: I am surprised I have to explain this in such detail, but for those to whom it's not clear:
* This article is about an aspect of cricket, a sport popular in the UK, India, and other Commonwealth countries (where British-style English is used, esp. as regards spelling), but not so popular in the US, where some other spelling rules apply. There's hardly any "strong national ties" to the US as described at MOS:RETAIN.
* The article is clearly tagged with  at the top of the article (third line in source edit view). That means the community has decided that BrEng is appropriate for this page, and it's been that way for nearly .
* The spellings "levelled", "rumoured", and "sceptical" are British-style spellings and should be retained,  to the US-centric spellings "leveled", "rumored", and "skeptical" as at User:Top Shot That's unexplained edits 1, 2, 3 and 4.
I will leave off mentioning edit-warring and edit summaries, as I want to focus on the content, not on disruption, and explain why I am again reverting to use the British spellings. I hope this will clarify the situation for User:Top Shot That and all other editors. — JohnFromPinckney (talk / edits) 00:00, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  British English