1975 Cricket World Cup squads explained

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

Manager: F.W. Bennett

PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling styleFirst class team
Ian Chappell  (c)26 September 1943Right-handedRight-arm leg spinSouth Australia
Greg Chappell  (vc)7 August 1948Right-handedRight-arm mediumQueensland
Ross Edwards1 December 1942Right-handedWicket-keeperWestern Australia
Gary Gilmour26 June 1951Left-handedLeft-arm fast mediumNew South Wales
Alan Hurst15 July 1950Right-handedRight-arm fastVictoria
Bruce Laird21 November 1950Right-handedWestern Australia
Dennis Lillee18 July 1949Right-handedRight-arm fastWestern Australia
Rick McCosker11 December 1946Right-handedRight-arm legbreakNew South Wales
Ashley Mallett13 July 1945Right-handedRight-arm offbreakSouth Australia
Rod Marsh  (wk)4 November 1947Left-handedWicket-keeperWestern Australia
Jeff Thomson16 August 1950Right-handedRight-arm fastQueensland
Alan Turner23 July 1950Left-handedNew South Wales
Max Walker12 September 1948Right-handedRight-arm fast-mediumVictoria
Doug Walters21 December 1945Right-handedRight-arm mediumNew South Wales

East Africa

Manager: Jasmer Singh Grewal

PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling styleNational team
Harilal Shah  (c)14 April 1943Right-handedRight-arm mediumKenya
Frasat Ali31 July 1949Right-handedRight-arm mediumKenya
Zulfiqar Ali1947Right-handedRight-arm mediumKenya
Yunus Badat1943Right-handedZambia
Hamish McLeod  (wk)Left-handedWicket-keeperZambia
Praful Mehta  (wk)1941Left-handedWicket-keeperTanzania
John Nagenda25 April 1938Right-handedRight-arm fast-mediumUganda
Parbhu Nana17 August 1933Right-handedLeft-arm orthodox spinZambia
Don Pringle1 May 1932Right-handedRight-arm mediumKenya
Mehmood Quaraishy4 February 1942Right-handedKenya
Ramesh Sethi4 September 1941Right-handedRight-arm offbreak
Jawahir Shah1942Right-handedKenya
Shiraz Sumar1950Right-handedTanzania
Samuel Walusimbi1948Right-handedLeft-arm mediumUganda

England

PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling styleFirst class team
Mike Denness  (c)1 December 1940Right-handedKent
Dennis Amiss7 April 1943Right-handedWarwickshire
Geoff Arnold3 September 1944Right-handedRight-arm fast-mediumSurrey
Keith Fletcher20 May 1944Right-handedRight-arm legbreakEssex
Tony Greig6 October 1946Right-handedRight-arm mediumSussex
Frank Hayes6 December 1946Right-handedRight-arm mediumLancashire
John Jameson  (wk)30 June 1941Right-handedWicket-keeperWarwickshire
Alan Knott  (wk)9 April 1946Right-handedWicket-keeperKent
Peter Lever17 September 1940Right-handedRight-arm fast-mediumLancashire
Chris Old22 December 1948Left-handedRight-arm fast-mediumYorkshire
John Snow13 October 1941Right-handedRight-arm fast-mediumSussex
Derek Underwood8 June 1945Right-handedLeft-arm orthodox spin
Left-arm medium
Kent
Barry Wood26 December 1942Right-handedRight-arm mediumLancashire
Bob Woolmer14 May 1948Right-handedRight-arm mediumKent

India

Manager: Gulabrai Ramchand

PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling styleFirst class team
Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan  (c)21 April 1945Right-handedRight-arm offbreakTamil Nadu
Syed Abid Ali9 September 1941Right-handedRight-arm medium-fastHyderabad
Mohinder Amarnath24 September 1950Right-handedRight-arm mediumDelhi
Bishen Singh Bedi (vc)25 September 1946Right-handedLeft-arm slow orthodoxDelhi
Farokh Engineer  (wk)25 February 1938Right-handedWicket-keeperBombay
Anshuman Gaekwad23 September 1952Right-handedRight-arm offbreakBaroda
Sunil Gavaskar10 July 1949Right-handedRight-arm medium
Right-arm offbreak
Bombay
Karsan Ghavri28 February 1951Left-handedLeft-arm mediumBombay
Syed Kirmani  (wk)29 December 1949Right-handedWicket-keeperKarnataka
Madan Lal20 March 1951Right-handedRight-handed mediumDelhi
Brijesh Patel24 November 1952Right-handedRight-arm offbreakKarnataka
Parthasarathy Sharma5 January 1948Right-handedRight-arm mediumRajasthan
Eknath Solkar19 March 1948Left-handedLeft-arm slow orthodoxBombay
Gundappa Viswanath12 February 1949Right-handedRight-arm legbreakKarnataka

New Zealand

PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling styleFirst class team
Glenn Turner  (c)26 May 1947Right-handedRight-arm offbreakOtago
Lance Cairns10 October 1949Right-handedRight-arm medium-fastOtago
Richard Collinge2 April 1946Right-handedLeft-arm medium-fastWellington
Barry Hadlee14 December 1941Right-handedCanterbury
Dayle Hadlee6 January 1948Right-handedRight-arm medium-fastCanterbury
Richard Hadlee3 July 1951Left-handedRight-arm fastCanterbury
Brian Hastings23 March 1940Right-handedRight-arm legbreak googlyCanterbury
Geoff Howarth29 March 1951Right-handedRight-arm offbreakNorthern Districts
Hedley Howarth25 December 1943Left-handedLeft-arm orthodox spinAuckland
Brian McKechnie6 November 1953Right-handedRight-arm fast-mediumOtago
John Morrison27 August 1947Right-handedLeft-arm orthodox spinWellington
David O'Sullivan21 February 1951Right-handedSlow left-arm orthodoxCentral Districts
John Parker21 February 1951Right-handedRight-arm legbreakNorthern Districts
Ken Wadsworth  (wk)30 November 1946Right-handedWicket-keeperCentral Districts

Pakistan

PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling styleFirst class team
Asif Iqbal   (c)6 July 1943Right-handedRight-arm mediumKarachi
Asif Masood23 January 1946Right-handedRight-arm medium-fastPIA
Imran Khan5 October 1952Right-handedRight-arm fastPIA
Javed Miandad12 June 1957Right-handedRight-arm legbreakHabib Bank
Majid Khan  (vc)28 September 1946Right-handedRight-arm medium
Right-arm offbreak
Rawalpindi
Mushtaq Mohammad22 November 1943Right-handedRight-arm legbreakKarachi
Naseer Malik1 February 1950Right-handedRight-arm medium-fastKarachi
Pervez Mir24 September 1953Right-handedRight-arm medium-fastLahore
Sadiq Mohammad3 May 1945Left-handedRight-arm legbreakKarachi
Sarfraz Nawaz1 December 1948Right-handedRight-arm fast-mediumLahore
Shafiq Ahmed28 March 1949Right-handedRight-arm fast-mediumLahore
Wasim Bari  (wk)23 March 1948Right-handedWicket-keeperKarachi
Wasim Raja3 July 1952Left-handedRight-arm legbreakLahore
Zaheer Abbas24 July 1947Right-handedRight-arm offbreakKarachi

Sri Lanka

Manager: K.M.T.Perera

PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling styleFirst class team
Anura Tennekoon  (c)29 October 1946Right-handedLeft-arm orthodox spinSinhalese Sports Club
Dennis Chanmugam13 August 1948Right-handedRight-arm mediumSinhalese Sports Club
Ajit de Silva12 December 1952Left-handedLeft-arm orthodox spinBloomfield
Somachandra de Silva11 June 1942Right-handedRight-arm legbreakBloomfield
Ranjit Fernando  (wk)22 February 1944Right-handedWicket-keeperNondescripts
David Heyn26 June 1945Left-handedRight-arm mediumNondescripts
Lalith Kaluperuma25 June 1949Right-handedRight-arm offbreakBloomfield
Duleep Mendis25 August 1952Right-handedSinhalese Sports Club
Tony Opatha5 August 1947Right-handedRight-arm mediumColombo Cricket Club
Mevan Pieris16 February 1946Left-handedRight-arm fast-mediumSinhalese Sports Club
Anura Ranasinghe13 October 1956Right-handedLeft-arm orthodox spinBurgher
Michael Tissera23 March 1939Right-handedRight-arm legbreakColombo Cricket Club
Bandula Warnapura1 March 1953Right-handedRight-arm mediumBloomfield
Sunil Wettimuny2 February 1949Right-handedWicket-keeperSinhalese Sports Club

West Indies

Manager: Clyde Walcott

PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling styleFirst class team
Clive Lloyd  (c)31 August 1944Left-handedRight-arm mediumGuyana
Keith Boyce11 October 1943Right-handedRight-arm fast-mediumBarbados
Maurice Foster9 May 1943Right-handedRight-arm offbreakJamaica
Roy Fredericks11 November 1942Left-handedSlow left-arm wrist-spinGuyana
Lance Gibbs29 September 1934Right-handedRight-arm offbreakGuyana
Gordon Greenidge1 May 1951Right-handedRight-arm mediumBarbados
Vanburn Holder10 October 1945Right-handedRight-arm fast-mediumBarbados
Bernard Julien13 March 1950Right-handedLeft-arm medium-fastTrinidad & Tobago
Alvin Kallicharran21 March 1949Left-handedRight-arm offbreakGuyana
Rohan Kanhai26 December 1935Right-handedRight-arm mediumGuyana
Collis King11 June 1951Right-handedRight-arm mediumBadbados
Deryck Murray  (wk)20 May 1943Right-handedWicket-keeperTrinidad & Tobago
Viv Richards7 March 1952Right-handedRight-arm offbreakLeeward Islands
Andy Roberts29 January 1951Right-handedRight-arm fastLeeward Islands

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Notes and References

  1. Robinson, Higgs dropped for World Cup, The Canberra Times, 6 June 1975. (Available online at Trove. Retrieved 2023-11-21.)
  2. [John Woodcock (cricket writer)|Woodcock J]
  3. [John Woodcock (cricket writer)|Woodcock J]