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- 1 2 3 John Mitchell, CricInfo. Retrieved 16 September 2008.
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- ↑ Arthur Carman (ed), The Shell Cricket Almanack of New Zealand 1967, Sporting Publications, Tawa, 1967, pp. 77–78.