1975 Cricket World Cup squads

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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]

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Australia

Manager: F.W. Bennett

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

East Africa

Manager: Jasmer Singh Grewal

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

England

PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling style First class team
Mike Denness   (c) 1 December 1940Right-handed Kent
Dennis Amiss 7 April 1943Right-handed Warwickshire
Geoff Arnold 3 September 1944Right-handedRight-arm fast-medium Surrey
Keith Fletcher 20 May 1944Right-handedRight-arm legbreak Essex
Tony Greig 6 October 1946Right-handedRight-arm medium Sussex
Frank Hayes 6 December 1946Right-handedRight-arm medium Lancashire
John Jameson   (wk) 30 June 1941Right-handed Wicket-keeper Warwickshire
Alan Knott   (wk) 9 April 1946Right-handed Wicket-keeper Kent
Peter Lever 17 September 1940Right-handedRight-arm fast-medium Lancashire
Chris Old 22 December 1948Left-handedRight-arm fast-medium Yorkshire
John Snow 13 October 1941Right-handedRight-arm fast-medium Sussex
Derek Underwood 8 June 1945Right-handedLeft-arm orthodox spin
Left-arm medium
Kent
Barry Wood 26 December 1942Right-handedRight-arm medium Lancashire
Bob Woolmer 14 May 1948Right-handedRight-arm medium Kent

India

Manager: Gulabrai Ramchand

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

New Zealand

PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling style First class team
Glenn Turner   (c) 26 May 1947Right-handedRight-arm offbreak Otago
Lance Cairns 10 October 1949Right-handedRight-arm medium-fast Otago
Richard Collinge 2 April 1946Right-handedLeft-arm medium-fast Wellington
Barry Hadlee 14 December 1941Right-handed Canterbury
Dayle Hadlee 6 January 1948Right-handedRight-arm medium-fast Canterbury
Richard Hadlee 3 July 1951Left-handedRight-arm fast Canterbury
Brian Hastings 23 March 1940Right-handedRight-arm legbreak googly Canterbury
Geoff Howarth 29 March 1951Right-handedRight-arm offbreak Northern Districts
Hedley Howarth 25 December 1943Left-handedLeft-arm orthodox spin Auckland
Brian McKechnie 6 November 1953Right-handedRight-arm fast-medium Otago
John Morrison 27 August 1947Right-handedLeft-arm orthodox spin Wellington
David O'Sullivan 21 February 1951Right-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Central Districts
John Parker 21 February 1951Right-handedRight-arm legbreak Northern Districts
Ken Wadsworth   (wk) 30 November 1946Right-handed Wicket-keeper Central Districts

Pakistan

PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling style First class team
Asif Iqbal   (c) 6 July 1943Right-handedRight-arm medium Karachi
Asif Masood 23 January 1946Right-handedRight-arm medium-fast PIA
Imran Khan 5 October 1952Right-handedRight-arm fast PIA
Javed Miandad 12 June 1957Right-handedRight-arm legbreak Habib Bank
Majid Khan   (vc) 28 September 1946Right-handedRight-arm medium
Right-arm offbreak
Rawalpindi
Mushtaq Mohammad 22 November 1943Right-handedRight-arm legbreak Karachi
Naseer Malik 1 February 1950Right-handedRight-arm medium-fast Karachi
Pervez Mir 24 September 1953Right-handedRight-arm medium-fast Lahore
Sadiq Mohammad 3 May 1945Left-handedRight-arm legbreak Karachi
Sarfraz Nawaz 1 December 1948Right-handedRight-arm fast-medium Lahore
Shafiq Ahmed 28 March 1949Right-handedRight-arm fast-medium Lahore
Wasim Bari   (wk) 23 March 1948Right-handed Wicket-keeper Karachi
Wasim Raja 3 July 1952Left-handedRight-arm legbreak Lahore
Zaheer Abbas 24 July 1947Right-handedRight-arm offbreak Karachi

Sri Lanka

Manager: K.M.T.Perera

PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling style First class team
Anura Tennekoon   (c) 29 October 1946Right-handedLeft-arm orthodox spin Sinhalese Sports Club
Dennis Chanmugam 13 August 1948Right-handedRight-arm medium Sinhalese Sports Club
Ajit de Silva 12 December 1952Left-handedLeft-arm orthodox spin Bloomfield
Somachandra de Silva 11 June 1942Right-handedRight-arm legbreak Bloomfield
Ranjit Fernando   (wk) 22 February 1944Right-handed Wicket-keeper Nondescripts
David Heyn 26 June 1945Left-handedRight-arm medium Nondescripts
Lalith Kaluperuma 25 June 1949Right-handedRight-arm offbreak Bloomfield
Duleep Mendis 25 August 1952Right-handed Sinhalese Sports Club
Tony Opatha 5 August 1947Right-handedRight-arm medium Colombo Cricket Club
Mevan Pieris 16 February 1946Left-handedRight-arm fast-medium Sinhalese Sports Club
Anura Ranasinghe 13 October 1956Right-handedLeft-arm orthodox spin Burgher
Michael Tissera 23 March 1939Right-handedRight-arm legbreak Colombo Cricket Club
Bandula Warnapura 1 March 1953Right-handedRight-arm medium Bloomfield
Sunil Wettimuny 2 February 1949Right-handed Wicket-keeper Sinhalese Sports Club

West Indies

Manager: Clyde Walcott

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

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