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- ↑ "West Indies a small world of cricketing connections", Scyld Berry, The Daily Telegraph, 15 March 2004
- ↑ Divyajeevan Satpathy. "Greatest Wicketkeepers of all time: Jeff Dujon" . Retrieved 10 July 2017.
