Bob Appleyard
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Robert Appleyard MBE (27 June 1924 – 17 March 2015) was a Yorkshire and England first-class cricketer.[1] He was one of the best English bowlers of the 1950s, a decade which saw England develop its strongest bowling attack of the twentieth century. Able to bowl fast-medium swingers or seamers and off-spinners with almost exactly the same action, Appleyard's career was almost destroyed by injury and illness after his first full season in 1951. In his limited Test career, he took a wicket every fifty-one balls, and in first-class cricket his 708 wickets cost only 15.48 runs each.[1]
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Full name | Robert Appleyard | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1924-06-27)27 June 1924 Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 17 March 2015(2015-03-17) (aged 90) Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Off-break, Right-arm fast-medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut | 1 July 1954 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 7 June 1956 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricInfo, 4 April 2018 |
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