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- ↑ Cricketers' Who's Who (1983 ed.). Cricketers' Who's Who/Iain Sproat. p. 278.
- ↑ "Derbyshire v Somerset". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 24 May 2008.
- ↑ "Minor Counties Championship 1982 and Second Eleven Championship 1982". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1983 ed.). John Wisden & Co. pp. 865 and 880.