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- 1 2 Keith A. P. Sandiford, Cricket Nurseries of Colonial Barbados: The Elite Schools, 1865–1966, University of the West Indies Press, Kingston, 1998, p. 43.
- ↑ "Barbados v British Guiana 1958-59". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
- ↑ "Lear Wood". Cricinfo. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
