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- ↑ "Bermuda's maiden First-class match". Emerging Cricket. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
- ↑ "New Zealand in Bermuda, 1971/72: Bermuda v New Zealanders". Cricinfo. Retrieved 17 April 2020.