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- ↑ First-Class Matches played on Cobham Park, Cobham, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-12-17.
- 1 2 Other matches played on Cobham Park, Cobham, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-12-17.
- ↑ Tennant I (2017) Ivo on Ivo, The Cricketer, vol 15, no.2, November 2017, pp.59–61.
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