1979 Cricket World Cup squads

This is a list of cricketers who represented their country at the 1979 Cricket World Cup in England which took place from 9 June 1979 to 23 June 1979.

 Australia

Player Date of Birth Batting Style Bowling Style First class team
Kim Hughes  (c) 26 January 1954 Right hand Right arm medium  Western Australia
Allan Border 27 July 1955 Left hand Left arm orthodox spin  Queensland
Gary Cosier 25 April 1953 Right hand Right arm medium  South Australia
Rick Darling 1 May 1957 Right hand  South Australia
Geoff Dymock 21 July 1945 Left hand Left arm fast-medium  Queensland
Andrew Hilditch 20 May 1956 Right hand Right arm medium  South Australia
Rodney Hogg 5 March 1951 Right hand Right hand fast  South Australia
Alan Hurst 15 July 1950 Right hand Right arm fast  Victoria
Trevor Laughlin 30 January 1951 Left hand Right arm medium  Victoria
Jeff Moss 29 June 1947 Left hand  Victoria
Graeme Porter 18 March 1955 Right hand Right hand medium  Western Australia
Kevin Wright  (wk) 27 December 1953 Right hand Wicket-keeper  Western Australia
Graham Yallop 7 October 1952 Left hand Left arm medium  Victoria
Dav Whatmore 16 March 1954 Right hand -  Victoria

Source: Cricinfo 1979 World Cup stats for Australia

 Canada

Player Date of Birth Batting Style Bowling Style First class team
Bryan Mauricette  (c)  (wk) 4 September 1946 Right hand Wicket-keeper Toronto
Windward Islands
Charles Baksh 15 March 1940 Right hand Winnipeg
Robert Callender 2 November 1950 Right hand Right arm medium-fast Montreal
Christopher Chappell 17 July 1955 Right hand Toronto
Franklyn Dennis 26 September 1947 Right hand Toronto
Cornelius Henry 16 September 1956 Right hand Right arm medium Ottawa
Tariq Javed 12 June 1949 Right hand Right arm leg-break Ottawa
Karachi
Cecil Marshall 13 September 1939 Right hand Right arm medium Ottawa
Jitendra Patel 26 November 1945 Left hand Left arm orthodox spin London (Ontario)
Baroda
Glenroy Sealy 11 June 1940 Right hand Right arm medium Toronto
Barbados
Martin Stead 1 June 1958 Right hand Right arm medium Vancouver
John Valentine 20 September 1954 Left hand Left arm medium Ottawa
John Vaughan 8 June 1945 Right hand Right arm medium-fast Ottawa
Garnet Brisbane 31 December 1938 Right hand Left arm orthodox spin Quebec

Source: Cricinfo 1979 World Cup stats for Canada

 England

Player Date of Birth Batting Style Bowling Style First class team
Mike Brearley  (c) 28 April 1942 Right hand Wicket-keeper Middlesex
Ian Botham 24 November 1955 Right hand Right arm fast-medium Somerset
Geoffrey Boycott 21 October 1940 Right hand Right arm medium Yorkshire
Phil Edmonds 8 March 1951 Right hand Left arm orthodox spin Middlesex
Mike Gatting[1] 6 June 1957 Right hand Right arm medium Middlesex
Graham Gooch 23 July 1953 Right hand Right arm medium Essex
David Gower 1 April 1957 Left hand Right arm off-break Leicestershire
Mike Hendrick 22 October 1948 Right hand Right arm fast-medium Derbyshire
Wayne Larkins 22 November 1953 Right hand Right arm medium Northamptonshire
Geoff Miller 8 September 1952 Right hand Right arm off-break Derbyshire
Chris Old 22 December 1948 Left hand Right arm fast-medium Yorkshire
Derek Randall 24 February 1951 Right hand Right arm medium Nottinghamshire
Bob Taylor  (wk) 17 July 1941 Right hand Wicket-keeper Derbyshire
Bob Willis 30 May 1949 Right hand Right arm fast Warwickshire

Source: Cricinfo 1979 World Cup stats for England

 India

Player Date of Birth Batting Style Bowling Style First class team
Srinivas Venkataraghavan  (c) 21 April 1945 Right hand Right arm offbreak Tamil Nadu
Mohinder Amarnath 24 September 1950 Right hand Right arm medium Delhi
Bishan Singh Bedi 25 September 1946 Right hand Left arm slow orthodox Delhi
Anshuman Gaekwad 23 September 1952 Right hand Right arm offbreak Baroda
Sunil Gavaskar 10 July 1949 Right hand Right arm medium
Right arm offbreak
Bombay
Karsan Ghavri 28 February 1951 Left hand Left arm medium Bombay
Kapil Dev 6 January 1959 Right hand Right arm fast-medium Haryana
Surinder Khanna  (wk) 3 June 1956 Right hand Wicket-keeper Delhi
Brijesh Patel 24 November 1952 Right hand Right arm offbreak Karnataka
Dilip Vengsarkar 6 April 1956 Right hand Right arm medium Bombay
Gundappa Viswanath 12 February 1949 Right hand Right arm legbreak Karnataka
Bharath Reddy 12 November 1954 Right hand Wicket-keeper Tamil Nadu
Yajurvindra Singh 1 August 1952 Right hand Right arm medium Maharashtra
Yashpal Sharma 11 August 1954 Right hand Right arm medium Punjab

Source: Cricinfo 1979 World Cup stats for India

 New Zealand

Player Date of Birth Batting Style Bowling Style First class team
Mark Burgess  (c) 17 July 1944 Right hand Right arm off-break Auckland
Lance Cairns 10 October 1949 Right hand Right arm medium-fast Otago
Ewen Chatfield 3 July 1950 Right hand Right arm medium-fast Wellington
Jeremy Coney 21 June 1952 Right hand Right arm medium Wellington
Bruce Edgar 23 November 1956 Left hand Wicket-keeper Wellington
Richard Hadlee 3 July 1951 Left hand Right arm fast Canterbury
Geoff Howarth 29 March 1951 Right hand Right arm offbreak Auckland
Warren Lees  (wk) 19 March 1952 Right hand Wicket-keeper Otago
Brian McKechnie 6 November 1953 Right hand Right arm fast-medium Otago
John Morrison 27 August 1947 Right hand Left arm orthodox spin Wellington
Warren Stott 8 December 1946 Right hand Right arm medium Auckland
Gary Troup 3 October 1952 Right hand Left arm fast-medium Auckland
Glenn Turner 26 May 1947 Right hand Right arm offbreak Otago
John Wright 5 July 1954 Left hand Right arm medium Northern Districts

Source: Cricinfo 1979 World Cup stats for New Zealand

 Pakistan

Player Date of Birth Batting Style Bowling Style First class team
Asif Iqbal  (c) 6 June 1943 Right hand Right arm medium Karachi
Zaheer Abbas 24 July 1947 Right hand Right arm offbreak Karachi
Sikander Bakht 25 August 1957 Right hand Right arm medium-fast Karachi
Wasim Bari  (wk) 23 March 1948 Right hand Wicket-keeper Karachi
Imran Khan 25 November 1952 Right hand Right arm fast PIA
Majid Khan 28 September 1946 Right hand Right arm medium
Right arm offbreak
Rawalpindi
Javed Miandad 12 June 1957 Right hand Right arm legbreak Habib Bank
Sadiq Mohammad 3 May 1945 Left hand Right arm legbreak Karachi
Sarfraz Nawaz 1 December 1948 Right hand Right arm fast-medium Lahore
Mudassar Nazar 6 April 1956 Right hand Right arm medium Lahore
Wasim Raja 3 July 1952 Left hand Right arm legbreak Lahore
Haroon Rashid 25 March 1953 Right hand Right arm medium Karachi
Iqbal Qasim 6 August 1953 Left hand Left arm orthodox spin Karachi
Hasan Jamil 25 July 1952 Left hand Left arm medium PIA

Source: Cricinfo 1979 World Cup stats for Pakistan

 Sri Lanka

Player Date of Birth Batting Style Bowling Style First class team
Anura Tennekoon  (c) 29 October 1946 Right hand Left arm orthodox spin SSC
Ajit de Silva 12 December 1952 Left hand Left arm orthodox spin BCAC
Somachandra de Silva 11 June 1942 Right hand Right arm legbreak BCAC
Stanley de Silva 17 November 1956 Right hand Right arm fast-medium
Roy Dias 18 October 1952 Right hand Right-arm offbreak CCC
Ranjan Gunatilleke 15 August 1951 Right hand Right-arm medium
Sunil Jayasinghe  (wk) 15 July 1955 Right hand None BCAC
Ranjan Madugalle 22 April 1959 Right hand Right-arm offbreak FFCC
Duleep Mendis 25 August 1952 Right hand SSC
Tony Opatha 5 August 1947 Right hand Right arm medium CCC
Sudath Pasqual 16 October 1961 Left-hand Right-arm medium RCC
Bandula Warnapura  (vc) 1 March 1953 Right hand Right arm medium BCAC
BRC
Sunil Wettimuny 2 February 1949 Right hand Wicket-keeper SSC
Rohan Jayasekara 7 December 1957 Right hand Wicket-keeper -

Source: Cricinfo 1979 World Cup stats for Sri Lanka

 West Indies

Player Date of Birth Batting Style Bowling Style First class team
Clive Lloyd (c) 31 August 1944 left hand Right-arm medium Guyana
Colin Croft 15 March 1953 Right-hand Right-arm fast Guyana,
Joel Garner 16 December 1952 Right hand Right-arm fast Barbados
Gordon Greenidge 1 May 1951 Right-hand Right-arm medium/offbreak Barbados
Desmond Haynes 15 February 1956 Right-hand Right-arm legbreak/medium pace Barbados
Michael Holding 16 February 1954 Right-hand Right-arm fast Jamaica
Alvin Kallicharran 21 March 1949 Left-hand Right-arm offbreak Guyana
Collis King 11 June 1951 Right-hand Right-arm medium Barbados
Deryck Murray (wk) 20 May 1943 Right-hand Legbreak Trinidad and Tobago
Viv Richards 7 March 1952 Right-hand Right-arm medium/offbreak Leeward Islands
Andy Roberts 29 January 1951 Right-hand Right-arm fast Leeward Islands
Larry Gomes 13 July 1953 Left-hand Right-arm offbreak Trinidad and Tobago
Faoud Bacchus 31 January 1954 Right-hand Right-arm medium Guyana
Malcolm Marshall 18 October 1958 Right-hand Right-arm fast Barbados

Source: Cricinfo 1979 World Cup stats for West Indies

References

  1. "Cricketer of the Year 1984 Mike Gatting". espncricinfo.com. Archived from the original on 18 December 2015. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
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