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- ↑ Cambridge Captain Chooses Six, Birmingham Post, 18 June 1961 (via newspapers.com)
- ↑ Cambridge University v Combined Services, Cambridge, 1960
- ↑ Somerset v Cambridge University, Taunton, 1961
- ↑ Wisden Cricketers Almanack 1962, pp 571-572
- ↑ Lewis, Tony, Playing Days, Stanley Paul, 1985, p.60
- ↑ "First class batting of NSK Reddy" . Retrieved 4 February 2023.