1979 Cricket World Cup squads

none April 2020 This is a list of cricketers who represented their country at the 1979 Cricket World Cup in England which took place from 9 June 1979 to 23 June 1979. The oldest player at the 1979 Cricket World Cup was Garnet Brisbane (40) of Canada while the youngest player was Sudath Pasqual (17) of Sri Lanka. Australia PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling styleFirst class team Kim Hughes  (c) 26 January 1954 Right hand Right arm medium WA Allan Border 27 July 1955 Left hand Left arm orthodox spin QLD Gary Cosier 25 April 1953 Right hand Right arm medium SA Rick Darling 1 May 1957 Right hand – SA Geoff Dymock 21 July 1945 Left hand Left arm fast-medium QLD Andrew Hilditch 20 May 1956 Right hand Right arm medium SA Rodney Hogg 5 March 1951 Right hand Right hand fast SA Alan Hurst 15 July 1950 Right hand Right arm fast Vic Trevor Laughlin 30 January 1951 Left hand Right arm medium Vic Jeff Moss 29 June 1947 Left hand – Vic Graeme Porter 18 March 1955 Right hand Right hand medium WA Kevin Wright  (wk) 27 December 1953 Right hand Wicket-keeper WA Graham Yallop 7 October 1952 Left hand Left arm medium Vic Dav Whatmore 16 March 1954 Right hand - Vic Source: Cricinfo 1979 World Cup stats for Australia Canada PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling styleFirst class team Bryan Mauricette  (c)  (wk) 4 September 1946 Right hand Wicket-keeper Canada TorontoWest Indies Windward Islands Charles Baksh 15 March 1940 Right hand – Canada Winnipeg Robert Callender 2 November 1950 Right hand Right arm medium-fast Canada Montreal Christopher Chappell 17 July 1955 Right hand – Canada Toronto Franklyn Dennis 26 September 1947 Right hand – Canada Toronto Cornelius Henry 16 September 1956 Right hand Right arm medium Canada Ottawa Tariq Javed 12 June 1949 Right hand Right arm leg-break Canada OttawaPakistan Karachi Cecil Marshall 13 September 1939 Right hand Right arm medium Canada Ottawa Jitendra Patel 26 November 1945 Left hand Left arm orthodox spin Canada London (Ontario)India Baroda Glenroy Sealy 11 June 1940 Right hand Right arm medium Canada TorontoBarbados Barbados Martin Stead 1 June 1958 Right hand Right arm medium Canada Vancouver John Valentine 20 September 1954 Left hand Left arm medium Canada Ottawa John Vaughan 8 June 1945 Right hand Right arm medium-fast Canada Ottawa Garnet Brisbane 31 December 1938 Right hand Left arm orthodox spin Canada Quebec Source: Cricinfo 1979 World Cup stats for Canada England PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling styleFirst class team Mike Brearley  (c) 28 April 1942 Right hand Wicket-keeper England Middlesex Ian Botham 24 November 1955 Right hand Right arm fast-medium England Somerset Geoffrey Boycott 21 October 1940 Right hand Right arm medium England Yorkshire Phil Edmonds 8 March 1951 Right hand Left arm orthodox spin England Middlesex Mike Gattinghttp://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/154465.html Cricketer of the Year 1984 Mike Gatting espncricinfo.com 2013-11-09 https://web.archive.org/web/20151218100608/http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/154465.html 18 December 2015 live 6 June 1957 Right hand Right arm medium England Middlesex Graham Gooch 23 July 1953 Right hand Right arm medium England Essex David Gower 1 April 1957 Left hand Right arm off-break England Leicestershire Mike Hendrick 22 October 1948 Right hand Right arm fast-medium England Derbyshire Wayne Larkins 22 November 1953 Right hand Right arm medium England Northamptonshire Geoff Miller 8 September 1952 Right hand Right arm off-break England Derbyshire Chris Old 22 December 1948 Left hand Right arm fast-medium England Yorkshire Derek Randall 24 February 1951 Right hand Right arm medium England Nottinghamshire Bob Taylor  (wk) 17 July 1941 Right hand Wicket-keeper England Derbyshire Bob Willis 30 May 1949 Right hand Right arm fast England Warwickshire Source: https://archive.today/20130121041504/http://stats.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/averages/batting_bowling_by_team.html?id=547;team=1;type=tournament Cricinfo 1979 World Cup stats for England India PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling styleFirst class team Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan  (c) 21 April 1945 Right hand Right arm offbreak India Tamil Nadu Mohinder Amarnath 24 September 1950 Right hand Right arm medium India Delhi Bishan Singh Bedi 25 September 1946 Right hand Left arm slow orthodox India Delhi Anshuman Gaekwad 23 September 1952 Right hand Right arm offbreak India Baroda Sunil Gavaskar  (vc) 10 July 1949 Right hand Right arm mediumRight arm offbreak India Bombay Karsan Ghavri 28 February 1951 Left hand Left arm medium India Bombay Kapil Dev 6 January 1959 Right hand Right arm fast-medium India Haryana Surinder Khanna  (wk) 3 June 1956 Right hand Wicket-keeper India Delhi Brijesh Patel 24 November 1952 Right hand Right arm offbreak India Karnataka Dilip Vengsarkar 6 April 1956 Right hand Right arm medium India Bombay Gundappa Viswanath 12 February 1949 Right hand Right arm legbreak India Karnataka Bharath Reddy 12 November 1954 Right hand Wicket-keeper India Tamil Nadu Yajurvindra Singh 1 August 1952 Right hand Right arm medium India Maharashtra Yashpal Sharma 11 August 1954 Right hand Right arm medium India Punjab Source: ESPNcricinfohttp://stats.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/averages/batting_bowling_by_team.html?id=547;team=6;type=tournament 1979 World Cup stats for India ESPNcricinfo 1 June 2024 New Zealand PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling styleFirst class team Mark Burgess  (c) 17 July 1944 Right hand Right arm off-break New Zealand Auckland Lance Cairns 10 October 1949 Right hand Right arm medium-fast New Zealand Otago Ewen Chatfield 3 July 1950 Right hand Right arm medium-fast New Zealand Wellington Jeremy Coney 21 June 1952 Right hand Right arm medium New Zealand Wellington Bruce Edgar 23 November 1956 Left hand Wicket-keeper New Zealand Wellington Richard Hadlee 3 July 1951 Left hand Right arm fast New Zealand Canterbury Geoff Howarth 29 March 1951 Right hand Right arm offbreak New Zealand Auckland Warren Lees  (wk) 19 March 1952 Right hand Wicket-keeper New Zealand Otago Brian McKechnie 6 November 1953 Right hand Right arm fast-medium New Zealand Otago John Morrison 27 August 1947 Right hand Left arm orthodox spin New Zealand Wellington Warren Stott 8 December 1946 Right hand Right arm medium New Zealand Auckland Gary Troup 3 October 1952 Right hand Left arm fast-medium New Zealand Auckland Glenn Turner 26 May 1947 Right hand Right arm offbreak New Zealand Otago John Wright 5 July 1954 Left hand Right arm medium New Zealand Northern Districts Source: Cricinfo 1979 World Cup stats for New Zealand Pakistan PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling styleFirst class team Asif Iqbal  (c) 6 June 1943 Right hand Right arm medium Pakistan Karachi Zaheer Abbas 24 July 1947 Right hand Right arm offbreak Pakistan Karachi Sikander Bakht 25 August 1957 Right hand Right arm medium-fast Pakistan Karachi Wasim Bari  (wk) 23 March 1948 Right hand Wicket-keeper Pakistan Karachi Imran Khan 25 November 1952 Right hand Right arm fast Pakistan PIA Majid Khan 28 September 1946 Right hand Right arm mediumRight arm offbreak Pakistan Rawalpindi Javed Miandad 12 June 1957 Right hand Right arm legbreak Pakistan Habib Bank Sadiq Mohammad 3 May 1945 Left hand Right arm legbreak Pakistan Karachi Sarfraz Nawaz 1 December 1948 Right hand Right arm fast-medium Pakistan Lahore Mudassar Nazar 6 April 1956 Right hand Right arm medium Pakistan Lahore Wasim Raja 3 July 1952 Left hand Right arm legbreak Pakistan Lahore Haroon Rashid 25 March 1953 Right hand Right arm medium Pakistan Karachi Iqbal Qasim 6 August 1953 Left hand Left arm orthodox spin Pakistan Karachi Hasan Jamil 25 July 1952 Left hand Left arm medium Pakistan PIA Source: Cricinfo 1979 World Cup stats for Pakistan Sri Lanka PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling styleFirst class team Anura Tennekoon  (c) 29 October 1946 Right hand Left arm orthodox spin Sri Lanka SSC Ajit de Silva 12 December 1952 Left hand Left arm orthodox spin Sri Lanka BCAC Somachandra de Silva 11 June 1942 Right hand Right arm legbreak Sri Lanka BCAC Stanley de Silva 17 November 1956 Right hand Right arm fast-medium Sri Lanka – Roy Dias 18 October 1952 Right hand Right-arm offbreak Sri Lanka CCC Ranjan Gunatilleke 15 August 1951 Right hand Right-arm medium Sri Lanka – Sunil Jayasinghe  (wk) 15 July 1955 Right hand None Sri Lanka BCAC Ranjan Madugalle 22 April 1959 Right hand Right-arm offbreak England FFCC Duleep Mendis 25 August 1952 Right hand – Sri Lanka SSC Tony Opatha 5 August 1947 Right hand Right arm medium Sri Lanka CCC Sudath Pasqual 16 October 1961 Left-hand Right-arm medium Sri Lanka RCC Bandula Warnapura  (vc) 1 March 1953 Right hand Right arm medium Sri Lanka BCACSri Lanka BRC Sunil Wettimuny 2 February 1949 Right hand Wicket-keeper Sri Lanka SSC Rohan Jayasekara 7 December 1957 Right hand Wicket-keeper Sri Lanka - Source: Cricinfo 1979 World Cup stats for Sri Lanka West Indies Manager: Clyde WalcottCWI SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO WORLD CUP HEROES OF 1975 AND 1979 https://www.windiescricket.com/news/cwi-special-tribute-world-cup-heroes-1975-and-1979/ Windies Cricket 21 June 2020 PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling styleFirst class teamClive Lloyd (c) 31 August 1944 left hand Right-arm medium GuyanaGuyanaColin Croft 15 March 1953 Right-hand Right-arm fast GuyanaGuyanaJoel Garner 16 December 1952 Right hand Right-arm fast BarbadosBarbadosGordon Greenidge 1 May 1951 Right-hand Right-arm medium/offbreak BarbadosBarbadosDesmond Haynes 15 February 1956 Right-hand Right-arm legbreak/medium pace BarbadosBarbadosMichael Holding 16 February 1954 Right-hand Right-arm fast JamaicaJamaicaAlvin Kallicharran 21 March 1949 Left-hand Right-arm offbreak GuyanaGuyanaCollis King 11 June 1951 Right-hand Right-arm medium BarbadosBarbadosDeryck Murray (wk) 20 May 1943 Right-hand Legbreak Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and TobagoViv Richards 7 March 1952 Right-hand Right-arm medium/offbreak Antigua and BarbudaLeeward IslandsAndy Roberts 29 January 1951 Right-hand Right-arm fast Antigua and BarbudaLeeward IslandsLarry Gomes 13 July 1953 Left-hand Right-arm offbreak Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and TobagoFaoud Bacchus 31 January 1954 Right-hand Right-arm medium GuyanaGuyanaMalcolm Marshall 18 April 1958 Right-hand Right-arm fast BarbadosBarbados Source: Cricinfo 1979 World Cup stats for West Indies References Caribbean Cricket England Sports World External links 1979 Cricket World Cup. Cricinfo.com. 1979 Cricket World Cup Squads https://web.archive.org/web/20110718113648/http://www.worldcupofcricket.com/squads-1979-cricket-world-cup.php 18 July 2011 . worldcupofcricket.com. Category:Cricket World Cup squads Squads, 1979 Cricket World Cup