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- ↑ "First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Desmond Anderson". Cricket archive. 9 August 2008.
- ↑ "Oxford University v Hampshire". Cricket archive. 9 August 2008.
- ↑ "Oxford University v Worcestershire". Cricket archive. 9 August 2008.