1987 Cricket World Cup squads explained

This is a list of cricketers who represented their country at the 1987 Cricket World Cup in India and Pakistan which took place from 9 October 1987 to 8 November 1987. The oldest player at the 1987 Cricket World Cup was John Traicos (40) of Zimbabwe while the youngest player was Ijaz Ahmed (19) of Pakistan.

Australia

Coach: Bob Simpson

Player	Date of Birth	Matches	Batting style	Bowling style	First class team
Allan Border (c)	27 July 1955	153	Left hand	Left arm orthodox spin
David Boon	29 December 1960	40	Right hand	Right hand off-spin
Greg Dyer (wk)	16 March 1959	4	Right hand	Wicket-keeper
Dean Jones	24 March 1961	45	Right hand	Right arm off spin
Geoff Marsh	31 December 1958	37	Right hand	Right arm off-spin
Tim May	26 January 1962	0	Right hand	Right-arm offbreak
Craig McDermott	14 April 1965	39	Right hand	Right-arm fast
Tom Moody	2 October 1965	0	Right hand	Right-arm medium
Simon O'Donnell	26 January 1963	37	Right hand	Right-arm fast-medium
Bruce Reid	14 March 1963	33	Left hand	Left-arm fast-medium
Peter Taylor	22 August 1956	12	Left hand	Right-arm offbreak
Mike Veletta	30 October 1963	2	Right hand	-| |-|Steve Waugh|2 June 1965| 39|Right hand|Right-arm medium| |-|Andrew Zesers|11 March 1967| 0| Right hand |Right-arm medium-fast| |-|} England Coach: Micky Stewart !Player!Date of Birth!Batting style!Bowling style!First class team Mike Gatting (c) 6 June 1957 Right hand Right arm medium Middlesex Bill Athey 27 September 1957 Right hand Right arm medium Gloucestershire Chris Broad 29 September 1957 Left hand Right arm medium Nottinghamshire Phillip DeFreitas 18 February 1966 Right hand Right arm fast-medium Leicestershire Paul Downton (wk) 4 April 1957 Right hand Wicket-keeper Middlesex John Emburey 20 August 1952 Right hand Right arm off break Middlesex Neil Foster 6 May 1962 Right-hand Right-arm fast medium Essex Graham Gooch 23 July 1953 Right hand Right arm medium Essex Eddie Hemmings 20 February 1949 Right hand Right-arm offbreak Nottinghamshire Allan Lamb 20 June 1954 Right-hand Right-arm medium Northamptonshire Derek Pringle 18 September 1958 Right hand Right-arm medium Essex Tim Robinson 21 November 1958 Right hand Right-arm medium Nottinghamshire Gladstone Small 18 October 1961 Right arm Right arm fast-medium Warwickshire India Manager: PR Man Singh !Player!Date of Birth!Batting style!Bowling style!First class team Kapil Dev (c) 6 January 1959 Right hand Right arm fast-medium Haryana Mohammad Azharuddin 8 February 1963 Right hand Right-arm medium Hyderabad Roger Binny 19 July 1955 Right hand Right arm fast-medium Karnataka Sunil Gavaskar 10 July 1949 Right hand Right arm mediumRight arm offbreak Bombay Maninder Singh 13 June 1965 Right hand Slow left-arm orthodox Delhi Kiran More (wk) 4 September 1962 Right hand Right arm leg spinWicket-keeper Baroda Chandrakant Pandit 30 September 1961 Right hand Wicket-keeper Bombay Manoj Prabhakar 15 April 1963 Right hand Right-arm medium pace Delhi Chetan Sharma 3 January 1966 Right hand Right arm fast-medium Haryana Ravi Shastri 27 May 1962 Right hand Slow left-arm orthodox Bombay Navjot Singh Sidhu 20 October 1963 Right hand Right-arm medium Punjab Laxman Sivaramakrishnan 31 December 1965 Right hand Right-arm leg break Right-arm googly Tamil Nadu Krishnamachari Srikkanth 21 December 1959 Right hand Right-arm mediumRight-arm offbreak Tamil Nadu Dilip Vengsarkar (vc) 6 April 1956 Right hand Right arm medium Bombay New Zealand Player Date of birth Batting style Bowling style First class team Jeff Crowe (c) 14 September 1958 Right-handed Right arm, medium pace Auckland Stephen Boock 20 September 1951 Right-hand Slow left-arm orthodox Canterbury John Bracewell 15 April 1958 Right-hand Right arm off break Auckland Ewen Chatfield 3 July 1950 Right hand Right arm medium-fast Wellington Martin Crowe 22 September 1962 Right-hand Right-arm medium Central Districts Phil Horne 21 January 1960 Left-hand – Auckland Andrew Jones 9 May 1959 Right-hand Right-arm off-break Wellington Danny Morrison 3 February 1966 Right-hand Right-arm fast-medium Auckland Dipak Patel 25 October 1958 Right-hand Right-arm off-break Auckland Ken Rutherford 26 October 1965 Right-hand Right arm medium Otago Ian Smith (wk) 28 February 1957 Right hand Wicket-keeper Auckland Martin Snedden 23 November 1958 Left-hand Right-arm medium-fast Auckland Willie Watson 31 August 1965 Right-hand Right-arm fast-medium Auckland John Wright 5 July 1954 Left hand Right arm medium Northern Districts Pakistan Player Date of Birth Batting style Bowling style First class team Imran Khan (c) 5 October 1952 Right hand Right arm fast Sussex Abdul Qadir 15 September 1955 Right-hand Right-arm leg spin Habib Bank Ijaz Ahmed 20 September 1968 Right-hand Left-arm medium Habib Bank Javed Miandad 12 June 1957 Right hand Right arm legbreak Habib Bank Mansoor Akhtar 6 September 1962 Right-hand Right-arm offspin PAC Manzoor Elahi 15 April 1963 Right-hand Right-arm fast-medium Multan Mudassar Nazar 6 April 1956 Right hand Right arm medium Lahore Rameez Raja 14 August 1962 Right hand Right arm leg-break Saleem Jaffar 19 November 1962 Right-hand Left-arm fast-medium Karachi Saleem Malik 16 April 1963 Right-hand Right arm off break / slow-medium Lahore Saleem Yousuf (wk) 7 December 1959 Right hand Wicket-keeper Karachi Shoaib Mohammad 8 January 1961 Right hand Right arm offbreak Karachi Tauseef Ahmed 10 May 1958 Right hand Right arm offbreak Karachi Wasim Akram 3 June 1966 Left hand Left-arm fast Lahore Sri Lanka Player Date of Birth Batting style Bowling style First class team Duleep Mendis (c) 25 August 1952 Right hand – Sinhalese SC 25 February 1966 Right-hand Slow left-arm orthodox Panadura SC Ashantha de Mel 9 May 1959 Right-hand bat Right-arm medium-fast – Aravinda de Silva 17 October 1965 Right hand Right arm offbreak Nondescripts Roy Dias 18 October 1952 Right hand Right-arm offbreak Colombo CC Asanka Gurusinha 16 September 1966 Left-hand Right-arm medium Nondescripts Sridharan Jeganathan 11 July 1951 Right hand Slow left-arm orthodox Nondescripts Vinothen John 27 May 1960 Right-hand Right-arm medium-fast Moratuwa CC Brendon Kuruppu (wk) 5 January 1962 Right-handed Wicket-keeper Burgher RC Ranjan Madugalle 22 April 1959 Right hand Right-arm offbreak Nondescripts Roshan Mahanama 31 May 1966 Right-hand - Colombo CC Arjuna Ranatunga 1 December 1963 Left-hand Right-arm medium Sinhalese CC Rumesh Ratnayake 2 January 1964 Right-hand bat Right-arm fast-medium Nondescripts Ravi Ratnayeke 2 May 1960 Left-handed Right-arm fast medium Colombo CC West Indies Player Date of Birth Batting style Bowling style First class team Viv Richards (c) 7 March 1952 Right-hand Right-arm medium/offbreak Leeward Islands Eldine Baptiste 12 March 1960 Right hand Right-arm fast-medium Leeward Islands Winston Benjamin 31 December 1964 Right hand Right-arm fast Leeward Islands Carlisle Best 14 May 1959 Right hand Right-arm off break/medium pace Barbados Jeff Dujon (wk) 28 May 1956 Right-hand Wicket-keeper Jamaica Roger Harper 17 March 1963 Right hand Right arm offbreak Guyana Desmond Haynes 15 February 1956 Right hand Right-arm legbreak/medium pace Barbados Carl Hooper 15 December 1966 Right hand Right arm offbreak Guyana Gus Logie 28 September 1960 Right-hand Right-arm off break Trinidad and Tobago Patrick Patterson 15 September 1961 Right hand Right arm fast Jamaica Richie Richardson 12 January 1962 Right-hand Right-arm medium pace Leeward Islands Phil Simmons 18 April 1963 Right-hand Right-arm medium Trinidad and Tobago Courtney Walsh 30 October 1962 Right hand Right-arm fast Jamaica Zimbabwe Player Date of Birth Batting style Bowling style John Traicos (c) 17 May 1947 Right-hand Right arm off-spin Kevin Arnott 8 March 1961 Right-hand - Eddo Brandes 5 March 1963 Right-hand Right arm fast Robin Brown 11 March 1951 Right-hand Right-arm medium Iain Butchart 9 May 1960 Right-hand Right-arm medium Kevin Curran 7 September 1959 Right-handed Right-arm fast medium David Houghton (wk) 23 June 1957 Right-hand Right-arm off break Malcolm Jarvis 6 December 1955 Right hand Left-arm medium fast Babu Meman 26 June 1952 Right-hand Right-arm offbreak Grant Paterson 9 June 1960 Right-hand Right-arm off-spin Andrew Pycroft 6 June 1956 Right-hand Right-arm offbreak Peter Rawson 25 May 1957 Right-hand Right-arm medium-fast Ali Shah 7 August 1959 Left-hand Right arm medium Andy Waller 25 September 1959 Right hand Right-arm medium See also 1987 Cricket World Cup Final External links 1987 Cricket World Cup. 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