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- ↑ Surrey County Cricket Club First-Class Records 1846–2000, Limited Overs Records 1963–2000, compiled by The Surrey Statistics Group, published by Surrey County Cricket Club, p61.
- ↑ Surrey County Cricket Club First-Class Records 1846–2000, Limited Overs Records 1963–2000, compiled by The Surrey Statistics Group, published by Surrey County Cricket Club, p145.
- ↑ Most catches in a season for Surrey
- ↑ Surrey County Cricket Club First-Class Records 1846–2000, Limited Overs Records 1963–2000, compiled by The Surrey Statistics Group, published by Surrey County Cricket Club, p1.
- ↑ David Lemmon, The History of Surrey County Cricket Club, Christopher Helm, 1989, ISBN 0-7470-2010-8, p275.
- ↑ List A match awards
- ↑ Scorecard Surrey v West Indies, 1966 List A fixture
- ↑ Arlott on Cricket, edited by David Rayvern Allen, Fontana/Collins, 1985 edition, ISBN 0-00-637007-1, pp218-220.
- ↑ Responsible for overseeing recreational and school cricket.
- ↑ Daily Telegraph article "Whither English Cricket" published 1 May, 1999
- ↑ Cricinfo article "What happened to the black cricketer?" published August, 2004.
- ↑ Tulse Hill School