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- ↑ "First-Class Matches played by Jack Briggs". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
- ↑ "First-class Bowling For Each Team by Jack Briggs". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
- ↑ "First-class Batting and Fielding For Each Team Jack Briggs". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
- ↑ "Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Jack Briggs". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
- ↑ "Teams Jack Briggs played for". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
- ↑ Dudley Carew, To the Wicket, Chapman & Hall, London, 1946, p. 140.