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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]

Australia

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Manager: F.W. Bennett

Player Date of birth Batting style Bowling style First 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

East Africa

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Manager: Jasmer Singh Grewal

Player Date of birth Batting style Bowling style National 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

England

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Player Date of birth Batting style Bowling style First 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 spin
Left-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

India

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Manager: Gulabrai Ramchand

Player Date of birth Batting style Bowling style First 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 medium
Right-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

New Zealand

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Player Date of birth Batting style Bowling style First 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

Pakistan

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Player Date of birth Batting style Bowling style First 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 medium
Right-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

Sri Lanka

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Manager: K.M.T.Perera

Player Date of birth Batting style Bowling style First 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

West Indies

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Manager: Clyde Walcott

Player Date of birth Batting style Bowling style First 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 Badbados
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

References

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  1. ^ a b Robinson, Higgs dropped for World Cup, The Canberra Times, 6 June 1975. (Available online at Trove. Retrieved 2023-11-21.)
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Woodcock J (1975) The great, unthinkable World Cup, The Times, 7 June 1975, p. 20. (Available online at The Times Digital Archive. Retrieved 2023-11-21.)
  3. ^ Woodcock J (1975) Cricket, The Times, 2 June 1975, p. 8. (Available online at The Times Digital Archive. Retrieved 2023-11-21.)
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