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- ↑ "Super Fours 2002 Table". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ↑ "Super Fours 2003 Table". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ↑ "Super Fours 2005 Table". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ↑ "Super Fours 2006 Table". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ↑ "Super Fours Twenty20 2006". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 26 January 2021.[ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ "Super Fours Twenty20 2013". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 26 January 2021.