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- ↑ "Scorecard: Somerset v Middlesex" . www.cricketarchive.com. 14 August 1985. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
- 1 2 "Somerset in 1985". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1986 ed.). Wisden. pp. 517–518.