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- Notes
- 1 2 "Player Profile: Tom Marsden". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
- ↑ "Scorecard: Sheffield & Leicester versus Nottingham]". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
- Sources
- Arthur Haygarth, Scores & Biographies, Volume 2-3 (1827-1848), Lillywhite, 1862
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