1996 Cricket World Cup squads

• Coach: Geoff Marsh

Player	Date of birth	Batting style	Bowling style	First-class team
Mark Taylor (c)	27 October 1964	Left hand	Right-arm medium	New South Wales
Michael Bevan	8 May 1970	Left hand	Slow left-arm wrist spin	New South Wales
Damien Fleming	24 April 1970	Right hand	Right-arm fast-medium	Victoria
Ian Healy (wk)	30 April 1964	Right hand	Wicket-keeper	Queensland
Stuart Law	18 October 1968	Right hand	Right-arm medium	Queensland
Shane Lee	8 August 1973	Right hand	Right–arm medium	New South Wales
Craig McDermott	14 April 1965	Right hand	Right-arm fast	Queensland
Glenn McGrath	9 February 1970	Right hand	Right arm fast-medium	New South Wales
Ricky Ponting	19 December 1974	Right hand	Right arm medium	Tasmania
Paul Reiffel	19 April 1966	Right hand	Right-arm fast-medium	Victoria
Michael Slater	21 February 1970	Right hand	Right arm medium	New South Wales
Shane Warne	13 September 1969	Right hand	Right-arm leg break	Victoria
Mark Waugh	2 June 1965	Right hand	Right-arm medium Right-arm off-break	New South Wales
Steve Waugh	2 June 1965	Right hand	Right-arm medium	New South Wales

• Coach: Ray Illingworth
• Dermot Reeve was called up for the team as injury replacement.

Player	Date of Birth	Batting style	Bowling style	First-class team
Michael Atherton (c)	23 March 1968	Right hand	Right arm leg break Wicket-keeper	Lancashire
Dominic Cork	7 August 1971	Right hand	Right-arm fast-medium	Derbyshire
Phillip DeFreitas	18 February 1966	Right hand	Right arm fast-medium	Lancashire
Neil Fairbrother	9 September 1963	Left hand	Left-arm medium	Lancashire
Darren Gough	18 September 1970	Right hand	Right-arm fast	Yorkshire
Graeme Hick	23 May 1966	Right hand	Right arm off-break	Worcestershire
Peter Martin	15 November 1968	Right hand	Right-arm fast-medium	Lancashire
Richard Illingworth	23 August 1963	Right hand	Slow left-arm orthodox	Worcestershire
Jack Russell (wk)	15 August 1963	Left hand	Right arm off break	Gloucestershire
Neil Smith	27 July 1967	Right hand	Right-arm off break	Warwickshire
Robin Smith	13 September 1963	Right hand	Right arm leg-break	Hampshire
Alec Stewart	8 April 1963	Right hand	Right-arm medium	Surrey
Graham Thorpe	1 August 1969	Left hand	Right arm medium	Surrey
Craig White	16 December 1969	Right hand	Right-arm fast-medium	Yorkshire
Dermot Reeve	2 April 1963	Right hand	Right-arm medium	Warwickshire

Coach/manager: Ajit Wadekar

Player	Date of birth	Batting style	Bowling style	First-class team
Mohammad Azharuddin (c)	8 February 1963	Right hand	Right-arm medium	Hyderabad
Sachin Tendulkar (vc)	24 April 1973	Right hand	Right-arm medium Right-arm leg break Right-arm off-break	Mumbai
Vinod Kambli	18 January 1972	Left hand	Right-arm off-break	Mumbai
Aashish Kapoor	25 March 1971	Right hand	Right-arm offbreak	Rajasthan
Anil Kumble	17 October 1970	Right hand	Right-arm leg spin	Karnataka
Sanjay Manjrekar	12 July 1965	Right hand	Right arm off-spin	Mumbai
Nayan Mongia (wk)	19 December 1969	Right hand	Wicket-keeper	Baroda
Manoj Prabhakar	15 April 1963	Right hand	Right-arm medium pace	Delhi
Venkatesh Prasad	5 August 1969	Right hand	Right-arm medium-fast	Karnataka
Navjot Singh Sidhu	20 October 1963	Right hand	Right-arm medium	Punjab
Javagal Srinath	31 August 1969	Right hand	Right arm fast	Karnataka
Ajay Jadeja	1 February 1971	Right hand	Right-arm medium	Haryana
Salil Ankola	1 March 1968	Right hand	Right-arm fast	Mumbai
Venkatapathy Raju	9 July 1969	Right hand	Slow left-arm orthodox	Hyderabad

Coach: Hanumant Singh

Player	Date of birth	Batting style	Bowling style	First-class team
Maurice Odumbe (c)	15 June 1969	Right hand	Right-arm offbreak	Aga Khan, Nairobi
Rajab Ali	19 November 1965	Right hand	Right-arm medium-fast	n/a
Dipak Chudasama	20 May 1963	Right hand	–	n/a
Tariq Iqbal	3 April 1964	Right hand	Wicket-keeper	n/a
Aasif Karim	15 September 1963	Right hand	Slow left-arm orthodox	Jaffery, Mombasa
Hitesh Modi	13 October 1971	Left hand	Slow left-arm orthodox	Nairobi Gymkhana, Kisumu
Thomas Odoyo	12 May 1978	Right hand	Right arm medium-fast	Nairobi Gymkhana, Kisumu
Edward Odumbe	19 May 1965	Right hand	Right-arm medium	n/a
Lameck Onyango	22 September 1973	Right hand	Right arm medium	Swamibapa, Nairobi
Kennedy Otieno (wk)	11 March 1972	Right hand	Wicket-keeper	Ruaraka, Nairobi
Brijal Patel	14 November 1977	Right hand	Slow left-arm	Premier, Nairobi
Martin Suji	2 June 1971	Right hand	Right-arm medium-fast	Aga Khan, Nairobi
David Tikolo	27 December 1964	Right hand	Right-arm medium
Steve Tikolo	25 June 1971	Right hand	Right arm medium/off spin	Swamibapa, Nairobi

Coach: Glenn Turner[1]

Player	Date of birth	Batting style	Bowling style	First-class team
Lee Germon (c/wk)	4 November 1968	Right hand	Right arm leg break Wicket-keeper	Canterbury
Nathan Astle	15 September 1971	Right hand	Right arm medium	Canterbury
Chris Cairns	13 June 1970	Right hand	Right arm fast-medium	Canterbury
Stephen Fleming	1 April 1973	Left hand	Right arm offbreak	Canterbury
Chris Harris	20 November 1969	Left hand	Right arm medium	Canterbury
Robert Kennedy	3 June 1972	Right hand	Right arm medium	Otago
Gavin Larsen	27 September 1962	Right hand	Right arm medium	Wellington
Danny Morrison	3 February 1966	Right hand	Right-arm fast-medium	Auckland
Dion Nash	20 November 1971	Right hand	Right-arm fast medium	Northern Districts
Adam Parore	23 January 1971	Right hand	Wicket-keeper	Auckland
Dipak Patel	25 October 1958	Right-hand	Right arm off-break	Auckland
Craig Spearman	4 July 1972	Right-hand	–	Central Districts
Shane Thomson	27 January 1969	Right hand	Right-arm off-break Right-arm fast-medium	Northern Districts
Roger Twose	17 April 1968	Left hand	Right-arm medium pace	Wellington

Coach: Bob Woolmer

Player	Date of birth	Bowling style	Batting style	First-class team
Hansie Cronje (c)	25 September 1969	Right hand	Right arm medium	Free State
Paul Adams	20 January 1977	Right hand	Left-arm wrist spin	Western Province
Daryl Cullinan	4 March 1967	Right hand	Right arm off break	Transvaal
Fanie de Villiers	13 October 1964	Right hand	Right-arm fast medium	Northern Transvaal
Allan Donald	20 October 1966	Right hand	Right arm fast	Warwickshire
Andrew Hudson	17 March 1965	Right hand	Right-arm medium	KwaZulu-Natal
Jacques Kallis	16 October 1975	Right hand	Right arm fast-medium	Western Province
Gary Kirsten	23 November 1967	Left hand	Right arm off break	Western Province
Craig Matthews	15 February 1965	Right hand	Right-arm fast-medium	Western Province
Brian McMillan	22 December 1963	Right hand	Right-arm medium-fast	Western Province
Steve Palframan (wk)	12 May 1970	Right hand	Wicket-keeper	Boland
Shaun Pollock	16 July 1973	Right hand	Right arm fast-medium	Warwickshire
Jonty Rhodes	27 July 1969	Right hand	Right-arm medium	KwaZulu-Natal
Pat Symcox	14 April 1960	Right hand	Right-arm offbreak	KwaZulu-Natal

Coach: Dav Whatmore

Player	Date of birth	Batting style	Bowling style	First-class team
Arjuna Ranatunga (c)	1 December 1963	Left-hand	Right-hand medium	Sinhalese SC
Aravinda de Silva (vc)	17 October 1965	Right hand	Right-arm off-break	Nondescripts
Upul Chandana	7 May 1972	Right hand	Right-arm leg-break	Tamil Union C&AC
Marvan Atapattu	22 November 1970	Right hand	Right arm leg spin	Sinhalese SC
Kumar Dharmasena	24 April 1971	Right hand	Right-arm offbreak	Bloomfield
Asanka Gurusinha	16 September 1966	Left-hand	Right-arm medium	Nondescripts
Romesh Kaluwitharana (wk)	24 November 1969	Right hand	Wicket-keeper Right-arm medium	Sebastianites
Sanath Jayasuriya	30 June 1969	Left hand	Slow left arm orthodox	Bloomfield
Roshan Mahanama	31 May 1966	Right-hand	-	Bloomfield
Muttiah Muralitharan	17 April 1972	Right hand	Right-arm off break	Tamil Union
Ravindra Pushpakumara	21 July 1975	Right hand	Right-arm fast-medium	Colts CC
Hashan Tillakaratne	14 July 1967	Left hand	-	Nondescripts
Chaminda Vaas	27 January 1974	Left Hand	Left arm fast medium	Colts CC
Pramodya Wickramasinghe	14 August 1971	Right hand	Right-arm fast	Burgher RC

Coach: Andy Roberts

Player	Date of Birth	Batting style	Bowling style	First-class team
Richie Richardson (c)	12 January 1962	Right hand	Right-arm medium-pace	Northern Transvaal
Jimmy Adams	9 January 1968	Left hand	Slow left arm orthodox	Jamaica
Curtly Ambrose	21 September 1963	Left hand	Right-arm fast	Leeward Islands
Keith Arthurton	21 February 1965	Left hand	Slow left-arm orthodox leg break	Leeward Islands
Ian Bishop	24 October 1967	Right-handed	Right-arm fast	Trinidad and Tobago
Courtney Browne (wk)	7 December 1970	Right hand	Wicket-keeper	Barbados
Sherwin Campbell	1 January 1970	Right hand	Right-arm medium pace	Barbados
Shivnarine Chanderpaul	16 August 1974	Left hand	Right-arm leg break	Guyana
Cameron Cuffy	8 February 1970	Right hand	Right-arm fast	Windward Islands
Ottis Gibson	16 March 1969	Right hand	Right arm fast	Barbados
Roger Harper	17 March 1963	Right hand	Right-arm off break	Guyana
Roland Holder	22 December 1967	Right hand	Right-arm medium pace	Barbados
Brian Lara	2 May 1969	Left hand	Right-arm leg break	Trinidad and Tobago
Courtney Walsh	30 October 1962	Right hand	Right-arm medium fast	Jamaica
Phil Simmons	18 April 1963	Right hand	Right-arm medium	Trinidad and Tobago

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