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- ↑ "Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Philip Spray". CricketArchive. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
- ↑ "Oxford University v Somerset 1967". CricketArchive. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
- ↑ "Recent alumni: Andrew Strauss". Caldicott School. Retrieved 28 August 2017.