Definition of "off-break" []

• 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.’ (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "That was achieved by Rayner in his first over with a perfectly pitched off-break that the former England left-hander edged to slip."
• "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."
• "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."