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THE death of Bob Appleyard, the Yorkshire and England spin bowler, brings to mind the most thrilling hour of my cricket watching life in 1951 when my father took me to Scarborough for the Scarborough Cricket Festival.
Appleyard needed four wickets to reach 200 in his first season for Yorkshire. But there were only four wickets to fall in the last innings of the last match of the season.
Bowlers at the opposite end failed to get a wicket. One by one, as the minutes ticked by, Appleyard took his total to 197, 198 and 199. The next over was again wicketless before, in mounting tension and excitement, Appleyard struck to reach his remarkable target.
Malcolm Huntington, School Lane, Heslington, York.
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