This is a list of cricket squads that were selected for the 1975 Cricket World Cup which took place in England between 7 and 21 June 1975. The eight teams competing in the competition were restricted to selecting a 14-member squad before the tournament began.[1]
Australia
Manager: F.W. Bennett
Player | Date of birth | Batting style | Bowling style | First class team |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ian Chappell (c) | 26 September 1943 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg spin | South Australia |
Greg Chappell (vc) | 7 August 1948 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | Queensland |
Ross Edwards | 1 December 1942 | Right-handed | Wicket-keeper | Western Australia |
Gary Gilmour | 26 June 1951 | Left-handed | Left-arm fast medium | New South Wales |
Alan Hurst | 15 July 1950 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast | Victoria |
Bruce Laird | 21 November 1950 | Right-handed | – | Western Australia |
Dennis Lillee | 18 July 1949 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast | Western Australia |
Rick McCosker | 11 December 1946 | Right-handed | Right-arm legbreak | New South Wales |
Ashley Mallett | 13 July 1945 | Right-handed | Right-arm offbreak | South Australia |
Rod Marsh (wk) | 4 November 1947 | Left-handed | Wicket-keeper | Western Australia |
Jeff Thomson | 16 August 1950 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast | Queensland |
Alan Turner | 23 July 1950 | Left-handed | – | New South Wales |
Max Walker | 12 September 1948 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Victoria |
Doug Walters | 21 December 1945 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | New South Wales |
- Sources: The Canberra Times;[1] The Times[2]
East Africa
Manager: Jasmer Singh Grewal
Player | Date of birth | Batting style | Bowling style | National team |
---|---|---|---|---|
Harilal Shah (c) | 14 April 1943 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | Kenya |
Frasat Ali | 31 July 1949 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | Kenya |
Zulfiqar Ali | 1947 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | Kenya |
Yunus Badat | 1943 | Right-handed | – | Zambia |
Hamish McLeod (wk) | Left-handed | Wicket-keeper | Zambia | |
Praful Mehta (wk) | 1941 | Left-handed | Wicket-keeper | Tanzania |
John Nagenda | 25 April 1938 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Uganda |
Parbhu Nana | 17 August 1933 | Right-handed | Left-arm orthodox spin | Zambia |
Don Pringle | 1 May 1932 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | Kenya |
Mehmood Quaraishy | 4 February 1942 | Right-handed | – | Kenya |
Ramesh Sethi | 4 September 1941 | Right-handed | Right-arm offbreak | Kenya |
Jawahir Shah | 1942 | Right-handed | – | Kenya |
Shiraz Sumar | 1950 | Right-handed | – | Tanzania |
Samuel Walusimbi | 1948 | Right-handed | Left-arm medium | Uganda |
England
Player | Date of birth | Batting style | Bowling style | First class team |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mike Denness (c) | 1 December 1940 | Right-handed | – | Kent |
Dennis Amiss | 7 April 1943 | Right-handed | – | Warwickshire |
Geoff Arnold | 3 September 1944 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Surrey |
Keith Fletcher | 20 May 1944 | Right-handed | Right-arm legbreak | Essex |
Tony Greig | 6 October 1946 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | Sussex |
Frank Hayes | 6 December 1946 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | Lancashire |
John Jameson (wk) | 30 June 1941 | Right-handed | Wicket-keeper | Warwickshire |
Alan Knott (wk) | 9 April 1946 | Right-handed | Wicket-keeper | Kent |
Peter Lever | 17 September 1940 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Lancashire |
Chris Old | 22 December 1948 | Left-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Yorkshire |
John Snow | 13 October 1941 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Sussex |
Derek Underwood | 8 June 1945 | Right-handed | Left-arm orthodox spin Left-arm medium | Kent |
Barry Wood | 26 December 1942 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | Lancashire |
Bob Woolmer | 14 May 1948 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | Kent |
India
Manager: Gulabrai Ramchand
Player | Date of birth | Batting style | Bowling style | First class team |
---|---|---|---|---|
Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan (c) | 21 April 1945 | Right-handed | Right-arm offbreak | Tamil Nadu |
Syed Abid Ali | 9 September 1941 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | Hyderabad |
Mohinder Amarnath | 24 September 1950 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | Delhi |
Bishen Singh Bedi (vc) | 25 September 1946 | Right-handed | Left-arm slow orthodox | Delhi |
Farokh Engineer (wk) | 25 February 1938 | Right-handed | Wicket-keeper | Bombay |
Anshuman Gaekwad | 23 September 1952 | Right-handed | Right-arm offbreak | Baroda |
Sunil Gavaskar | 10 July 1949 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium Right-arm offbreak | Bombay |
Karsan Ghavri | 28 February 1951 | Left-handed | Left-arm medium | Bombay |
Syed Kirmani (wk) | 29 December 1949 | Right-handed | Wicket-keeper | Karnataka |
Madan Lal | 20 March 1951 | Right-handed | Right-handed medium | Delhi |
Brijesh Patel | 24 November 1952 | Right-handed | Right-arm offbreak | Karnataka |
Parthasarathy Sharma | 5 January 1948 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | Rajasthan |
Eknath Solkar | 19 March 1948 | Left-handed | Left-arm slow orthodox | Bombay |
Gundappa Viswanath | 12 February 1949 | Right-handed | Right-arm legbreak | Karnataka |
New Zealand
Player | Date of birth | Batting style | Bowling style | First class team |
---|---|---|---|---|
Glenn Turner (c) | 26 May 1947 | Right-handed | Right-arm offbreak | Otago |
Lance Cairns | 10 October 1949 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | Otago |
Richard Collinge | 2 April 1946 | Right-handed | Left-arm medium-fast | Wellington |
Barry Hadlee | 14 December 1941 | Right-handed | – | Canterbury |
Dayle Hadlee | 6 January 1948 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | Canterbury |
Richard Hadlee | 3 July 1951 | Left-handed | Right-arm fast | Canterbury |
Brian Hastings | 23 March 1940 | Right-handed | Right-arm legbreak googly | Canterbury |
Geoff Howarth | 29 March 1951 | Right-handed | Right-arm offbreak | Northern Districts |
Hedley Howarth | 25 December 1943 | Left-handed | Left-arm orthodox spin | Auckland |
Brian McKechnie | 6 November 1953 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Otago |
John Morrison | 27 August 1947 | Right-handed | Left-arm orthodox spin | Wellington |
David O'Sullivan | 21 February 1951 | Right-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | Central Districts |
John Parker | 21 February 1951 | Right-handed | Right-arm legbreak | Northern Districts |
Ken Wadsworth (wk) | 30 November 1946 | Right-handed | Wicket-keeper | Central Districts |
Pakistan
Player | Date of birth | Batting style | Bowling style | First class team |
---|---|---|---|---|
Asif Iqbal (c) | 6 July 1943 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | Karachi |
Asif Masood | 23 January 1946 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | PIA |
Imran Khan | 5 October 1952 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast | PIA |
Javed Miandad | 12 June 1957 | Right-handed | Right-arm legbreak | Habib Bank |
Majid Khan (vc) | 28 September 1946 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium Right-arm offbreak | Rawalpindi |
Mushtaq Mohammad | 22 November 1943 | Right-handed | Right-arm legbreak | Karachi |
Naseer Malik | 1 February 1950 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | Karachi |
Pervez Mir | 24 September 1953 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | Lahore |
Sadiq Mohammad | 3 May 1945 | Left-handed | Right-arm legbreak | Karachi |
Sarfraz Nawaz | 1 December 1948 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Lahore |
Shafiq Ahmed | 28 March 1949 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Lahore |
Wasim Bari (wk) | 23 March 1948 | Right-handed | Wicket-keeper | Karachi |
Wasim Raja | 3 July 1952 | Left-handed | Right-arm legbreak | Lahore |
Zaheer Abbas | 24 July 1947 | Right-handed | Right-arm offbreak | Karachi |
Sri Lanka
Manager: K.M.T.Perera
West Indies
Manager: Clyde Walcott
Player | Date of birth | Batting style | Bowling style | First class team |
---|---|---|---|---|
Clive Lloyd (c) | 31 August 1944 | Left-handed | Right-arm medium | Guyana |
Keith Boyce | 11 October 1943 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Barbados |
Maurice Foster | 9 May 1943 | Right-handed | Right-arm offbreak | Jamaica |
Roy Fredericks | 11 November 1942 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm wrist-spin | Guyana |
Lance Gibbs | 29 September 1934 | Right-handed | Right-arm offbreak | Guyana |
Gordon Greenidge | 1 May 1951 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | Barbados |
Vanburn Holder | 10 October 1945 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Barbados |
Bernard Julien | 13 March 1950 | Right-handed | Left-arm medium-fast | Trinidad & Tobago |
Alvin Kallicharran | 21 March 1949 | Left-handed | Right-arm offbreak | Guyana |
Rohan Kanhai | 26 December 1935 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | Guyana |
Collis King | 11 June 1951 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | Badbados |
Deryck Murray (wk) | 20 May 1943 | Right-handed | Wicket-keeper | Trinidad & Tobago |
Viv Richards | 7 March 1952 | Right-handed | Right-arm offbreak | Leeward Islands |
Andy Roberts | 29 January 1951 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast | Leeward Islands |
References
External links
- 1975 Cricket World Cup. Cricinfo.com.
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