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- ↑ "Cricket Records | Records | Women's World Cup | Most ducks | ESPNcricinfo". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2017-07-05.
- ↑ "European Cup 1995". Irish Women's Cricket Union. 1995. p. 14. Retrieved 12 September 2023– via Women's Cricket History.
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