# 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. The oldest player at the 1979 Cricket World Cup was Garnet Brisbane (40) of Canada while the youngest player was Sudath Pasqual (17) of Sri Lanka.

## 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 | 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 |
| Srinivasaraghavan 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 (vc) | 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: ESPNcricinfo

## 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

Manager: Clyde Walcott
| 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 April 1958 | Right-hand | Right-arm fast | Barbados |
Source: Cricinfo 1979 World Cup stats for West Indies