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- ↑ rec.sport.cricket discussion, USENET, 24 November 1999
- ↑ "Unspun hero", The Guardian , 7 October 2001
- ↑ "How Joe blow turned Scott Muller into a nobody", Sydney Morning Herald , 24 May 2003