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
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Manager: F.W. Bennett
Player | Date of Birth | Batting style | Bowling style | First class team |
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Ian Chappell (c) | 26 September 1943 | Right hand | Right arm leg spin | ![]() |
Greg Chappell (vc) | 7 August 1948 | Right hand | Right arm medium | ![]() ![]() |
Ross Edwards | 1 December 1942 | Right hand | Wicket-keeper | ![]() ![]() |
Gary Gilmour | 26 June 1951 | Left hand | Left arm fast medium | ![]() |
Dennis Lillee | 18 July 1949 | Right hand | Right arm fast | ![]() |
Rick McCosker | 11 December 1946 | Right hand | Right arm legbreak | ![]() |
Ashley Mallett | 13 July 1945 | Right hand | Right arm offbreak | ![]() |
Rod Marsh (wk) | 4 November 1947 | Left hand | Wicket-keeper | ![]() |
Jeff Thomson | 16 August 1950 | Right hand | Right arm fast | ![]() |
Alan Turner | 23 July 1950 | Left hand | – | ![]() |
Max Walker | 12 September 1948 | Right hand | Right arm fast-medium | ![]() |
Doug Walters | 21 December 1945 | Right hand | Right arm medium | ![]() |
Alan Hurst | 15 July 1950 | Right hand | Right arm fast | ![]() |
Bruce Laird | 21 November 1950 | Right hand | - | ![]() |
Source: Cricinfo 1975 World Cup stats for Australia Source: The Canberra Times
East Africa

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

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

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

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

Player | Date of Birth | Batting style | Bowling style | First class team |
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Asif Iqbal (cricket | 6 July 1943 | Right hand | Right arm medium | ![]() |
Hasnain Afzal (vc) | 28 September 1946 | Right hand | Right arm medium Right arm offbreak |
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Zaheer Abbas | 24 July 1947 | Right hand | Right arm offbreak | ![]() |
Wasim Bari (wk) | 23 March 1948 | Right hand | Wicket-keeper | ![]() |
Imran Khan | 25 November 1952 | Right hand | Right arm fast | ![]() |
Naseer Malik | 1 February 1950 | Right hand | Right arm medium-fast | ![]() |
Asif Masood | 23 January 1946 | Right hand | Right arm medium-fast | ![]() |
Javed Miandad | 12 June 1957 | Right hand | Right arm legbreak | ![]() |
Pervez Mir | 24 September 1953 | Right hand | Right arm medium-fast | ![]() |
Mushtaq Mohammad | 22 November 1943 | Right hand | Right arm legbreak | ![]() |
Sadiq Mohammad | 3 May 1945 | Left hand | Right arm legbreak | ![]() |
Sarfraz Nawaz | 1 December 1948 | Right hand | Right arm fast-medium | ![]() |
Wasim Raja | 3 July 1952 | Left hand | Right arm legbreak | ![]() |
Shafiq Ahmed | 28 March 1949 | Right hand | Right arm fast-medium | ![]() |
Sri Lanka

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

Manager: Clyde Walcott
Player | Date of Birth | Batting style | Bowling style | First class team |
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Clive Lloyd (c) | 31 August 1944 | Left hand | Right arm medium | ![]() |
Keith Boyce | 11 October 1943 | Right hand | Right arm fast-medium | ![]() |
Roy Fredericks | 11 November 1942 | Left hand | Slow left-arm wrist-spin | ![]() |
Lance Gibbs | 29 September 1934 | Right hand | Right arm offbreak | ![]() |
Gordon Greenidge | 1 May 1951 | Right hand | Right arm medium | ![]() |
Vanburn Holder | 10 October 1945 | Right hand | Right arm fast-medium | ![]() |
Bernard Julien | 13 March 1950 | Right hand | Left arm medium-fast | ![]() |
Alvin Kallicharran | 21 March 1949 | Left hand | Right arm offbreak | ![]() |
Rohan Kanhai | 26 December 1935 | Right hand | Right arm medium | ![]() |
Deryck Murray (wk) | 20 May 1943 | Right hand | Wicket-keeper | ![]() |
Viv Richards | 7 March 1952 | Right hand | Right arm offbreak | ![]() |
Andy Roberts | 29 January 1951 | Right hand | Right arm fast | ![]() |
Maurice Foster | 9 May 1943 | Right hand | Right arm offbreak | ![]() |
Lawrence Rowe | 8 January 1949 | Right hand | Left arm fast medium | ![]() |
External links
- 1975 Cricket World Cup. Cricinfo.com.
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