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- ↑ "First-class Bowling For Each Team by Mark Whitaker". CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
- ↑ "Cambridge University v Middlesex, 1965" . Retrieved 29 June 2011.
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- ↑ "Norfolk v Yorkshire, 1969 Gillette Cup". CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
- ↑ Wisden 1966, pp. 280-81.