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- ↑ "Scorecard: Surrey v Somerset". www.cricketarchive.com. 31 May 1972. Retrieved 2 April 2024.
- ↑ "Scorecard: Essex v Somerset". www.cricketarchive.com. 7 June 1972. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
- ↑ "Scorecard: Somerset v Gloucestershire". www.cricketarchive.com. 27 May 1973. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
- ↑ David Foot & Ivan Ponting. Somerset Cricket: A Post-War Who's Who (1993 ed.). Redcliffe Books. p. 123. ISBN 1-872971-23-7.