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- ↑ "List A Bowling For Each Team by Christopher Kent". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
- ↑ "Hong Kong v Papua New Guinea, 2011 ICC World Cricket League Division Two". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
