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- 1 2 "First-class Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Ray Julian" . CricketArchive. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
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- ↑ Johnson, Martin (7 September 2001). "Julian takes bow as cricket heads towards bleak future" . The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235 . Retrieved 1 January 2020.