Bob Appleyard
(1924-2015)
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Robert Appleyard MBE (27 June 1924 – 17 March 2015) was a Yorkshire and England first-class cricketer. 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.
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Robert Appleyard 27 June 1924 Bradford, England
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17 March 2015 (aged 90) Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
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| Zodiac | Cancer |
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