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- ↑ Wisden 1957, pp. 730, 751.
- ↑ Wisden 1957, p. 303, Wisden 1958, p. 301.
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- ↑ Wisden 1962, p. 755.
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- ↑ Profile Mr Roger Alfred Geoffrey Luckin Retrieved 6 September 2013.