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- ↑ "William Fennex". CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
- 1 2 3 E. V. Lucas, Cricket All His Life, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1950, p. 22–23.
- ↑ CricketArchive – scorecard of inaugural Gentlemen v Players match
