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- ↑ "First-class bowling in each season by Brian Quigley". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
- ↑ "South Australia v Queensland 1959-60". Cricinfo. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
- ↑ Wisden 1962, p. 885.