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- ↑ "Sports Comment". Tribune . New South Wales, Australia. 26 January 1966. p. 12. Retrieved 27 March 2020– via Trove.
- ↑ "End of road for Booth and O'Neill". The Canberra Times . 3 March 1966. p. 32. Retrieved 27 March 2020– via Trove.
- ↑ The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket, Oxford, Melbourne, 1996, pp. 527–28.
- ↑ "Two new Life Members of Cricket NSW". Cricket NSW. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
