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- ↑ Grey High School cricket
- ↑ Eastern Province Currie Cup batting 1952–53
- ↑ Currie Cup fielding 1952–53
- ↑ R.T. Brittenden, Silver Fern on the Veld, Howard B. Timmins, Cape Town, 1954, p. 47.
- ↑ South African XI v Australians 1957–58
- ↑ Orange Free State v Eastern Province 1958–59
- ↑ Eastern Province v Griqualand West 1959–60
- ↑ Eastern Province Currie Cup batting 1960–61
- ↑ Border v Eastern Province 1960–61
- ↑ Western Province v Eastern Province 1962–63
- ↑ About Cricket South Africa Archived 2010-11-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Grant Dakin at Cricket Archive
- ↑ Stephen Fensham at Cricket Archive