1975 Cricket World Cup squads

This is a list of squads that was picked at the 1975 Cricket World Cup which took place in England between 7 and 21 June 1975. All eight teams had to select a 14-member squad before the World Cup started. The oldest player at the 1975 Cricket World Cup was Don Pringle (41) of East Africa while the youngest player was Javed Miandad (17/18) of Pakistan.

 Australia[]

Manager:

Player	Date of Birth	Batting Style	Bowling Style	First class team
Ian Chappell  (c)	26 September 1943	Right hand	Right arm leg spin	South Australia
Greg Chappell  (vc)	7 August 1948	Right hand	Right arm medium	South Australia  Queensland
Ross Edwards	1 December 1942	Right hand	Wicket-keeper	New South Wales  Western Australia
Gary Gilmour	26 June 1951	Left hand	Left arm fast medium	New South Wales
Dennis Lillee	18 July 1949	Right hand	Right arm fast	Western Australia
Rick McCosker	11 December 1946	Right hand	Right arm legbreak	New South Wales
Ashley Mallett	13 July 1945	Right hand	Right arm offbreak	South Australia
Rod Marsh  (wk)	4 November 1947	Left hand	Wicket-keeper	Western Australia
Jeff Thomson	16 August 1950	Right hand	Right arm fast	Queensland
Alan Turner	23 July 1950	Left hand	–	New South Wales
Max Walker	12 September 1948	Right hand	Right arm fast-medium	Victoria
Doug Walters	21 December 1945	Right hand	Right arm medium	New South Wales
Alan Hurst	15 July 1950	Right hand	Right arm fast	Victoria
Bruce Laird	21 November 1950	Right hand	-	Western Australia

Source: Cricinfo 1975 World Cup stats for Australia Source: The Canberra Times

East Africa[]

Player	Date of Birth	Batting Style	Bowling Style	National team
Harilal Shah  (c)	14 April 1943	Right hand	Right arm medium	Kenya
Frasat Ali	31 July 1949	Right hand	Right arm medium	Kenya
Zulfiqar Ali	1947	Right hand	Right arm medium	Kenya
Yunus Badat	1943	Right hand	–	Zambia
Hamish McLeod  (wk)	Unknown	Left hand	Wicket-keeper	Zambia
Praful Mehta  (wk)	1941	Left hand	Wicket-keeper	Tanzania
John Nagenda	25 April 1938	Right hand	Right arm fast-medium	Uganda
Parbhu Nana	17 August 1933	Right hand	Left arm orthodox spin	Zambia
Don Pringle	1 May 1932	Right hand	Right arm medium	Kenya
Mehmood Quaraishy	4 February 1942	Right hand	Unknown	Kenya
Ramesh Sethi	4 September 1941	Right hand	Right arm offbreak	Kenya
Jawahir Shah	1942	Right hand	–	Kenya
Shiraz Sumar	1950	Right hand	–	Tanzania
Samuel Walusimbi	1948	Right hand	Left arm medium	Uganda

Source: Cricinfo 1975 World Cup stats for East Africa

 England[]

Player	Date of Birth	Batting Style	Bowling Style	First class team
Mike Denness  (c)	1 December 1940	Right hand	–	Kent
Dennis Amiss	7 April 1943	Right hand	–	Warwickshire
Geoff Arnold	3 September 1944	Right hand	Right arm fast-medium	Surrey
Keith Fletcher	20 May 1944	Right hand	Right arm legbreak	Essex
Tony Greig	6 October 1946	Right hand	Right arm medium	Sussex
Frank Hayes	6 December 1946	Right hand	Right arm medium	Lancashire
John Jameson  (wk)	30 June 1941	Right hand	Wicket-keeper	Warwickshire
Alan Knott  (wk)	9 April 1946	Right hand	Wicket-keeper	Kent
Peter Lever	17 September 1940	Right hand	Right arm fast-medium	Lancashire
Chris Old	22 December 1948	Left hand	Right arm fast-medium	Yorkshire
John Snow	13 October 1941	Right hand	Right arm fast-medium	Sussex
Derek Underwood	8 June 1945	Right hand	Left arm orthodox spin Left arm medium	Kent
Barry Wood	26 December 1942	Right hand	Right arm medium	Lancashire

Source: Records: 1975 Prudential World Cup England Stats

 India[]

Manager: Gulabrai Ramchand

Player	Date of Birth	Batting Style	Bowling Style	First class team
Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan  (c)	21 April 1945	Right hand	Right arm offbreak	Tamil Nadu
Syed Abid Ali	9 September 1941	Right hand	Right arm medium-fast	Hyderabad
Mohinder Amarnath	24 September 1950	Right hand	Right arm medium	Delhi
Bishen Singh Bedi (vc)	25 September 1946	Right hand	Left arm slow orthodox	Delhi
Farokh Engineer  (wk)	25 February 1938	Right hand	Wicket-keeper	Bombay
Anshuman Gaekwad	23 September 1952	Right hand	Right arm offbreak	Baroda
Sunil Gavaskar	10 July 1949	Right hand	Right arm medium Right arm offbreak	Bombay
Karsan Ghavri	28 February 1951	Left hand	Left arm medium	Bombay
Madan Lal	20 March 1951	Right hand	Right hand medium	Delhi
Brijesh Patel	24 November 1952	Right hand	Right arm offbreak	Karnataka
Eknath Solkar	19 March 1948	Left hand	Left arm slow orthodox	Bombay
Gundappa Viswanath	12 February 1949	Right hand	Right arm legbreak	Karnataka
Syed Kirmani  (wk)	29 December 1949	Right hand	Wicket-keeper	Karnataka
Parthasarathy Sharma	5 January 1948	Right hand	Right arm medium	Rajasthan

Source: Cricinfo 1975 World Cup stats for India

 New Zealand[]

Player	Date of Birth	Batting Style	Bowling Style	First class team
Glenn Turner  (c)	26 May 1947	Right hand	Right arm offbreak	Otago
Lance Cairns	10 October 1949	Right hand	Right arm medium-fast	Otago
Richard Collinge	2 April 1946	Right hand	Left arm medium-fast	Central Districts Wellington
Barry Hadlee	14 December 1941	Right hand	Unknown	Canterbury
Dayle Hadlee	6 January 1948	Right hand	Right arm medium-fast	Canterbury
Richard Hadlee	3 July 1951	Left hand	Right arm fast	Canterbury
Brian Hastings	23 March 1940	Right hand	Right arm legbreak googly	Wellington
Geoff Howarth	29 March 1951	Right hand	Right arm offbreak	Auckland
Hedley Howarth	25 December 1943	Left hand	Left arm orthodox spin	Auckland
Brian McKechnie	6 November 1953	Right hand	Right arm fast-medium	Otago
John Morrison	27 August 1947	Right hand	Left arm orthodox spin	Wellington
John Parker  (wk)	21 February 1951	Right hand	Wicket-keeper	Northern Districts
Ken Wadsworth  (wk)	30 November 1946	Right hand	Wicket-keeper	Central Districts
John Parker	21 February 1951	Right hand	Right arm legbreak	Northern Districts

Source: Cricinfo 1975 World Cup stats for New Zealand

 Pakistan[]

Player	Date of Birth	Batting Style	Bowling Style	First class team
Asif Iqbal  (c)	6 July 1943	Right hand	Right arm medium	Karachi
Zaheer Abbas	24 July 1947	Right hand	Right arm offbreak	Karachi
Wasim Bari  (wk)	23 March 1948	Right hand	Wicket-keeper	Karachi
Imran Khan	25 November 1952	Right hand	Right arm fast	PIA
Majid Khan  (vc)	28 September 1946	Right hand	Right arm medium Right arm offbreak	Rawalpindi
Naseer Malik	1 February 1950	Right hand	Right arm medium-fast	Karachi
Asif Masood	23 January 1946	Right hand	Right arm medium-fast	PIA
Javed Miandad	12 June 1957	Right hand	Right arm legbreak	Habib Bank
Pervez Mir	24 September 1953	Right hand	Right arm medium-fast	Lahore
Mushtaq Mohammad	22 November 1943	Right hand	Right arm legbreak	Karachi
Sadiq Mohammad	3 May 1945	Left hand	Right arm legbreak	Karachi
Sarfraz Nawaz	1 December 1948	Right hand	Right arm fast-medium	Lahore
Wasim Raja	3 July 1952	Left hand	Right arm legbreak	Lahore
Shafiq Ahmed	28 March 1949	Right hand	Right arm fast-medium	Lahore

Source: Cricinfo 1975 World Cup stats for Pakistan

 Sri Lanka[]

Manager:

Player	Date of Birth	Batting Style	Bowling Style	First class team
Anura Tennekoon  (c)	29 October 1946	Right hand	Left arm orthodox spin	SSC
Ajit de Silva	12 December 1952	Left hand	Left arm orthodox spin	BCAC
Somachandra de Silva	11 June 1942	Right hand	Right arm legbreak	BCAC
Ranjit Fernando  (wk)	22 February 1944	Right hand	Wicket-keeper	NCC
David Heyn	26 June 1945	Left hand	Right arm medium	NCC
Lalith Kaluperuma	25 June 1949	Right hand	Right arm offbreak	BCAC
Duleep Mendis	25 August 1952	Right hand	–	SSC
Tony Opatha	5 August 1947	Right hand	Right arm medium	CCC
Mevan Pieris	16 February 1946	Left hand	Right arm fast-medium	SSC
Anura Ranasinghe	13 October 1956	Right hand	Left arm orthodox spin	BRC
Michael Tissera	23 March 1939	Right hand	Right arm legbreak	CCC
Bandula Warnapura	1 March 1953	Right hand	Right arm medium	BCAC BRC
Sunil Wettimuny	2 February 1949	Right hand	Wicket-keeper	SSC
Dennis Chanmugam	13 August 1948	Right hand	Right arm medium	SSC

Source: Cricinfo 1975 World Cup stats for Sri Lanka

 West Indies[]

Manager: Clyde Walcott

Player	Date of Birth	Batting Style	Bowling Style	First class team
Clive Lloyd  (c)	31 August 1944	Left hand	Right arm medium	Guyana
Keith Boyce	11 October 1943	Right hand	Right arm fast-medium	Barbados
Roy Fredericks	11 November 1942	Left hand	Slow left-arm wrist-spin	Guyana
Lance Gibbs	29 September 1934	Right hand	Right arm offbreak	Guyana
Gordon Greenidge	1 May 1951	Right hand	Right arm medium	Barbados
Vanburn Holder	10 October 1945	Right hand	Right arm fast-medium	Barbados
Bernard Julien	13 March 1950	Right hand	Left arm medium-fast	Trinidad & Tobago
Alvin Kallicharran	21 March 1949	Left hand	Right arm offbreak	Guyana
Rohan Kanhai	26 December 1935	Right hand	Right arm medium	Guyana
Deryck Murray  (wk)	20 May 1943	Right hand	Wicket-keeper	Trinidad & Tobago
Viv Richards	7 March 1952	Right hand	Right arm offbreak	Leeward Islands
Andy Roberts	29 January 1951	Right hand	Right arm fast	Leeward Islands
Maurice Foster	9 May 1943	Right hand	Right arm offbreak	Jamaica
Lawrence Rowe	8 January 1949	Right hand	Left arm fast medium	Jamaica

Source: Cricinfo 1975 World Cup stats for West Indies

External links[]

• 1975 Cricket World Cup. Cricinfo.com.