# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bob-appleyard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:59:35.030Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bob-appleyard"
name: "Bob Appleyard"
slug: "bob-appleyard"
description: "Robert Appleyard 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."
tagline: "English cricket player (1924-2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bob_Appleyard_1954.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1924-06-27"
deathDate: "2015-03-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.06
  momentum:             6.071428571428571
  historical:           4.874766666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "باب ایپل یارڈ"
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    title: "பாப் ஆப்பிள்யார்ட்"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump