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- ↑ "First-class Batting and Fielding by Season by Col Drybrough". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 2 March 2009.
- ↑ Most Promising Young Cricketer of the Year Archived 29 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2013-09-10.
- ↑ Northamptonshire v Middlesex 1964