WSC Australia XI
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Every player to appear in Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket is listed below along with their appearance records. Four teams would take part in the various WSC competitions, Australia XI, West Indies XI, World XI and Cavaliers XI.
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The following West Indians also represented the World XI in the 1977–78 Supertests
The Following West Indians also represented the World XI in the 1978/79 on the tour of New Zealand
The Cavaliers were included as a fourth team for the 1978/79 Country Cavaliers Tour. The XI was selected from players the other three sides had not selected for that rounds fixtures. This gave some of the contracted players who were not regularly appearing the chance to perform and earn bonus/prize money on offer.
| Nat. | Role | Player | Apps | Nat. | Role | Player | Apps | |
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 | BAT | Rick McCosker | 19 |  | ALL | Bob Woolmer | 3 | |
| | BAT | Ross Edwards | 17 | | ALL | Gary Gilmour | 1 | |
| | BAT | Martin Kent | 16 | | WKT | Richie Robinson | 17 | |
| | BAT | Doug Walters | 12 |  | WKT | Taslim Arif | 3 | |
| | BAT | Rob Langer | 10 | | BWL | Kerry O'Keeffe | 15 | |
| | BAT | Haroon Rashid | 7 | | BWL | John Snow | 11 | |
| | BAT | Dennis Amiss | 6 | | BWL | Wayne Prior | 8 | |
 | BAT | Rohan Kanhai | 5 | | BWL | Sarfraz Nawaz | 4 | |
| | BAT | Ian Redpath | 5 | | BWL | Garth McKenzie | 4 | |
| | BAT | Kepler Wessels | 2 | | BWL | Mick Malone | 4 | |
| | BAT | Jim Allen | 2 | | BWL | Wayne Daniel | 3 | |
| | BAT | Bruce Laird | 2 | | BWL | Len Pascoe | 3 | |
 | ALL | Eddie Barlow (c) | 19 | | BWL | Albert Padmore | 2 | |
| | ALL | Trevor Chappell | 13 | | BWL | Max Walker | 2 | |
| | ALL | David Holford | 10 | | BWL | Ian Davis | 1 | |
| | ALL | Mushtaq Mohammed | 9 | | BWL | Lance Gibbs | 1 | |
| | ALL | Graeme Watson | 9 | | ALL | Richard Austin | 4 | |
| | ALL | Bernard Julien | 4 |
Tests – Number of Test Matches played at the end of the player's career
Supertests – Number of World Series Cricket Supertests played
WSC ODIs – Number of World Series Cricket One Day International Matches played; International Cup ODIs (1977/78), International Cup (1978/79), WSC Tour Matches (1978/79 New Zealand), One-day games (1978/79 West Indies). Does not include Country Cup matches, Cavaliers Country Tour, Swan Channel 9 Cup, or other matches played during the WSC era.
Ian Michael Chappell is a former cricketer who played for South Australia and Australia. He captained Australia between 1971 and 1975 before taking a central role in the breakaway World Series Cricket organisation. Born into a cricketing family—his grandfather and brother also captained Australia—Chappell made a hesitant start to international cricket playing as a right-hand middle-order batsman and spin bowler. He found his niche when promoted to bat at number three. Known as "Chappelli", he earned a reputation as one of the greatest captains the game has seen. Chappell's blunt verbal manner led to a series of confrontations with opposition players and cricket administrators; the issue of sledging first arose during his tenure as captain, and he was a driving force behind the professionalisation of Australian cricket in the 1970s.
World Series Cricket (WSC) was professional cricket competition staged between 1977 and 1979 and organised by Kerry Packer for his Australian television network, Nine Network. A break away competition, the matches ran in opposition to established international cricket. World Series Cricket drastically changed the nature of cricket, and its influence continues to be felt today.
Trevor Martin Chappell is a former Australian cricketer, a member of the South Australian Chappell family which excelled at cricket. He played 3 tests and 20 One Day Internationals for Australia. He won the Sheffield Shield with New South Wales twice, and scored a century for Australia against India in the 1983 World Cup. His career was overshadowed, however, by an incident in 1981 in which he bowled an underarm delivery to New Zealand cricketer Brian McKechnie to stop the batsman from hitting a six.
Dennis Keith Lillee, AM, MBE is a former Australian cricketer rated as the "outstanding fast bowler of his generation". Lillee was known for his fiery temperament, 'never-say-die' attitude and popularity with the fans.
Kepler Christoffel Wessels is a South African-Australian cricket commentator and former cricketer who captained South Africa after playing 24 Tests for Australia. Since retiring he has been a lawn bowls competitor.
Barry Anderson Richards is a former South African first-class cricketer. A right-handed "talent of such enormous stature", Richards is considered one of South Africa's most successful batsmen. He was able to play only four Test matches – all against Australia – before South Africa's exclusion from the international scene in 1970. In that brief career, against a competitive Australian attack, Richards scored 508 runs at the high average of 72.57. Richards' contribution in that series was instrumental in the 4–0 win that South Africa inflicted on the side, captained by Bill Lawry. His first century, 140, was scored in conjunction with Graeme Pollock's 274 in a famous 103-run partnership. Mike Procter, whose South African and English career roughly paralleled that of Richards, was prominent in that series as a bowler.
Raymond James Bright is a former Australian Test and One Day International cricketer from Victoria. He was a left arm spin bowler and lower order batsman who captained Victoria for a number of seasons. He was also an Australian vice-captain.
Bruce Malcolm Laird is a former Western Australian and Australian cricketer. He was an opening batsmen who played in 21 Tests and 23 ODIs. He also played 13 "Supertests" in World Series Cricket.
Ian Charles Davis is a former Australian cricketer (batsman) who played in 15 Tests and 3 ODIs from 1973 to 1977. Ian retired from first-class cricket in 1984 then worked for Dunlop Slazenger until his retirement in 2010.
Martin Francis Kent is a former Australian cricketer who played in 3 Tests and 5 ODIs in 1981.
Douglas Sang Hue was a West Indian cricket umpire. He was of Chinese descent.
World Series Cricket results are the results of the main games played in the now defunct World Series Cricket (WSC) competition. World Series Cricket was a break away professional cricket competition staged between 1977 and 1979, organised by Kerry Packer for his Australian television network, the Nine Network. The matches ran in opposition to established international cricket. World Series Cricket drastically changed the nature of cricket, and its influence continues to be felt today.
The World Series Cricket Australia XI was a cricket team representing Australia in World Series Cricket (WSC). Their first game was against the WSC West Indies in 1977. World Series Cricket ended in 1979 after the Australian XI tour to the West Indies. The side was made up of current Australian international cricketers and some recently retired former Test players. The side was captained by Ian Chappell who had recently retired from first-class and international cricket, but returned to captain the side.
The World Series Cricket tour of the West Indies took place between February and April 1979. It was the second tour event of World Series Cricket after the World XI New Zealand tour earlier in the season. It was the first tour to feature the WSC West Indies and WSC Supertests. The five match Supertest series was drawn 1–1. It ran in parallel with the ODI series which the West Indies won easily, 8–2.
The World Series Cricket Cavaliers XI was a cricket team formed to play in World Series Cricket. Taking the International Cavaliers as its inspiration, the team was envisaged as a way of giving those players under contract to the WSC organisation, but not picked regularly for one of the three main teams regular match play and opportunities to win prize money. The team was formed in 1978, before the start of the second season of World Series Cricket, with a tour of Australia scheduled to take place at the same time as the main competition. This would see the Cavaliers play each of the other three WSC teams at a range of smaller venues around Australia between November 1978 and February 1979.
Shai Diego Hope is a Barbadian cricketer, who plays Tests and ODIs for the West Indies cricket team. At the age of 21, he was called into the West Indies squad after he scored a double century against the Windwards Islands at the Kensington Oval on the last day of the 2014–15 Regional Four Day Competition. In June 2018, he was named the Men's Cricketer of the Year, Test Cricketer of the Year and the ODI Cricketer of the Year at the annual Cricket West Indies' Awards. The following year, he was named the ODI Player of the Year.
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