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- ↑ School records
- ↑ Essex County Cricket Club records
- 1 2 Wisden Almanac
- ↑ "Scorecard: Worcestershire v Suffolk". www.cricketarchive.com. 4 July 1984. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
- ↑ "Scorecard: Somerset v Middlesex". www.cricketarchive.com. 14 August 1985. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
- ↑ Somerset League records
- ↑ Hampstead club records
- ↑ David Foot & Ivan Ponting. Somerset Cricket: A Post-War Who's Who (1993 ed.). Redcliffe Books. p. 42. ISBN 1-872971-23-7.
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