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- ↑ "Times Sport". The Canberra Times . 3 February 1988. p. 33. Retrieved 20 February 2016– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Keepers of a dying flame". 13 July 2003.
- ↑ Peter Anderson named Papua New Guinea coach
- ↑ Reality bites for Nepal and Papua New Guinea
- ↑ Afghanistan sign former PNG coach for new academy
- ↑ Anderson to head Afghanistan's National Cricket Academy
- ↑ Craddock, Robert (24 January 2015). "The Aussie guiding Afghan cricket". The Courier Mail.