article_snippet: Despite making Bob Appleyard first-class debut at 27, Appleyard, who bowled a mixture of medium pace and off spin, wasted no time in taking 200 wickets in his maiden season - and racked up a total of 708 between 1950 and 1958 at an average of 15.48.
article_snippet: Bob Appleyard played just nine Tests for England Tests for England but took 31 wickets at 17.87 and was an Ashes winner in Australia in 1954-55.
article_snippet: Bob Appleyard played just nine Tests for England Tests for England but took 31 wickets at 17.87 .
highlights_snippet: Bob Appleyard took 200 wickets in Bob Appleyard maiden season .
  
highlights_snippet: Bob Appleyard played just nine Tests for England but took 31 wickets at 17.87 .