1975 Cricket World Cup squads

none June 2026 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.Robinson, Higgs dropped for World Cup, The Canberra Times, 6 June 1975. (Available online at Trove. Retrieved 21 November 2023.) Australia Manager: F.W. Bennett PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling styleFirst 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; The TimesWoodcock J (1975) The great, unthinkable World Cup, The Times, 7 June 1975, p. 20. (Available online at The Times Digital Archive. Retrieved 21 November 2023.) East Africa Manager: Jasmer Singh Grewal PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling styleNational 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 Source: The Times England PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling styleFirst 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 spinLeft-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 Sources: The TimesWoodcock J (1975) Cricket, The Times, 2 June 1975, p. 8. (Available online at The Times Digital Archive. Retrieved 21 November 2023.) India Manager: Gulabrai Ramchand PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling styleFirst 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 mediumRight-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 Source: The Times New Zealand PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling styleFirst 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 Source: The Times Pakistan PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling styleFirst 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 mediumRight-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 Source: The Times Sri Lanka Manager: K.M.T.Perera PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling styleFirst class team Anura Tennekoon  (c) 29 October 1946 Right-handed Left-arm orthodox spin Sinhalese Sports Club Dennis Chanmugam 13 August 1948 Right-handed Right-arm medium Sinhalese Sports Club Ajit de Silva 12 December 1952 Left-handed Left-arm orthodox spin Bloomfield Somachandra de Silva 11 June 1942 Right-handed Right-arm legbreak Bloomfield Ranjit Fernando  (wk) 22 February 1944 Right-handed Wicket-keeper Nondescripts David Heyn 26 June 1945 Left-handed Right-arm medium Nondescripts Lalith Kaluperuma 25 June 1949 Right-handed Right-arm offbreak Bloomfield Duleep Mendis 25 August 1952 Right-handed – Sinhalese Sports Club Tony Opatha 5 August 1947 Right-handed Right-arm medium Colombo Cricket Club Mevan Pieris 16 February 1946 Left-handed Right-arm fast-medium Sinhalese Sports Club Anura Ranasinghe 13 October 1956 Right-handed Left-arm orthodox spin Burgher Michael Tissera 23 March 1939 Right-handed Right-arm legbreak Colombo Cricket Club Bandula Warnapura 1 March 1953 Right-handed Right-arm medium Bloomfield Sunil Wettimuny 2 February 1949 Right-handed Wicket-keeper Sinhalese Sports Club Source: The Times West Indies Manager: Clyde Walcott PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling styleFirst 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 Barbados 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 Source: The Times References External links 1975 Cricket World Cup. 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