This is a list of cricketers who represented their country at the 1983 Cricket World Cup in England which took place from 9 June 1983 to 25 June 1983. The oldest player to play at the 1983 Cricket World Cup was Somachandra De Silva (40/41) while the youngest player was Rumesh Ratnayake (19), both of Sri Lanka. The youngest in a 1983 World Cup squad (who did not play in any match, however) was Graeme Hick (17) of Zimbabwe.

India Manager: P. R. Man Singh PlayerDate of BirthBatting styleBowling styleFirst Class team Kapil Dev (c) 6 January 1959 (Age 24) Right hand Right arm fast-medium Haryana Mohinder Amarnath (vc) 24 September 1950 (Age 33) Right hand Right arm medium Delhi Kirti Azad 2 January 1959 (Age 24) Right-hand Right-arm off-spinner Delhi Roger Binny 19 July 1955 (Age 28) Right-hand Right-arm fast-medium Karnataka Sunil Gavaskar 10 July 1949 (Age 34) Right hand Right arm mediumRight arm offbreak MumbaiSyed Kirmani (wk) 29 December 1949 (Age 34) Right-handed Wicket-keeper Karnataka Madan Lal 20 March 1951 (Age 32) Right-hand Right-arm medium Delhi Sandeep Patil 18 August 1956 (Age 27) Right-hand Right-arm medium MumbaiBalwinder Sandhu 3 August 1956 (Age 27) Right-handed Right arm medium-fast Mumbai Yashpal Sharma 11 August 1954 (Age 29) Right-handed Right-arm medium Punjab Ravi Shastri 27 May 1962 (Age 21) Right-hand Slow left-arm orthodox Mumbai Krishnamachari Srikkanth 21 December 1959 (Age 24) Right hand Right-arm medium Right-arm offbreak Tamil Nadu Sunil Valson 2 October 1958 (Age 25) Right-hand Left-arm medium Delhi Dilip Vengsarkar 6 April 1956 (Age 27) Right hand Right arm medium Mumbai

Background The Indian squad was announced in May 1983. The other probables considered were Gundappa Viswanath, Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan, Maninder Singh, Ashok Malhotra, Surinder Amarnath, Anshuman Gaekwad, T. A. Sekhar. Sunil Valson was not in the original list of probables. The selection committee was headed by Ghulam Ahmed and had Chandu Borde, Chandu Sarwate, Bishan Singh Bedi and Pankaj Roy as the other members.

Australia Manager: Phil Ridings PlayerDate of BirthBatting styleBowling styleFirst class team Kim Hughes (c) 26 January 1954 Right hand Right arm medium Allan Border 27 July 1955 Left hand Left arm orthodox spin Trevor Chappell 12 October 1952 Right hand Right arm medium Tom Hogan 23 September 1956 Right-hand Slow left-arm orthodox Rodney Hogg 5 March 1951 Right hand Right hand fast David Hookes 3 May 1955 Left-handed – Geoff Lawson 7 December 1957 Right-hand Right-arm fast Dennis Lillee 18 July 1949 Right-hand Right-arm fast Ken MacLeay 2 April 1959 Right-hand Right-arm medium Rod Marsh (wk) 4 November 1947 Left-handed Wicket-keeper Jeff Thomson 16 August 1950 Right-handed Right arm fast Kepler Wessels 14 September 1957 Left-handed Right arm off break Graeme Wood 6 November 1956 Left-handed Right arm medium Graham Yallop 7 October 1952 Left hand Left-arm medium

Background Australia had won the triangular one day series at home over New Zealand and England during the 1982-83 summer. Kim Hughes had been in poor form for most of the summer but come good for the finals. The squad was picked in May. Greg Chappell was originally picked in the squad. Tom Hogan was selected over Bruce Yardley. Trevor Chappell was the biggest surprise for the squad, though Steve Smith had been a regular in Australia's one day team in the summer and he was overlooked. Later in the month Greg Chappell pulled out due to injury and Macleay replaced him.

England Manager: Doug Insole PlayerDate of BirthBatting styleBowling styleFirst class teamBob Willis (c) 30 May 1949 Right hand Right arm fast Warwickshire Paul Allott 14 September 1956 Right hand Right arm fast-medium Lancashire Ian Botham 24 November 1955 Right hand Right arm fast-medium SomersetNorman Cowans 17 April 1961 Right-hand Right-arm fast Middlesex Graham Dilley 18 May 1959 Left-handed Right-arm fast Kent Graeme Fowler 20 April 1957 Left-handed Right-arm medium LancashireMike Gatting 6 June 1957 Right hand Right arm medium Middlesex Ian Gould (wk) 19 August 1957 Left hand Wicket-keeper Sussex David Gower 1 April 1957 Left hand Right arm off-break Leicestershire Trevor Jesty 2 June 1948 Right-hand Right-arm medium Hampshire Allan Lamb 20 June 1954 Right-hand Right-arm medium Northamptonshire Vic Marks 25 June 1955 Right-handed Right-arm off break Somerset Derek Randall 24 February 1951 Right hand Right arm medium Nottinghamshire Chris Tavaré 27 October 1954 Right-hand Right arm off break Kent

Background Alan Butcher, David Bairstow, Eddie Hemmings, Phil Edmonds, Bob Taylor, David Mark Smith, Bill Athey, Wilf Slack, David Thomas were among the probables for the World Cup.

New Zealand Manager: Allan Wright PlayerDate of BirthBatting styleBowling styleFirst class teamGeoff Howarth (c) 29 March 1951 Right hand Right arm offbreak AucklandJohn Bracewell15 April 1958 Right-handed 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 Jeff Crowe 14 September 1958 Right-handed Right arm, medium pace Auckland Martin Crowe 22 September 1962 Right-hand Right-arm medium Central Districts Bruce Edgar 23 November 1956 Left hand Wicket-keeper Wellington Richard Hadlee 3 July 1951 Left hand Right arm fast CanterburyWarren Lees (wk) 19 March 1952 Right hand Wicket-keeper Otago Ian Smith (wk) 28 February 1957 Right-handed Wicket-keeper Central Districts Martin Snedden 23 November 1958 Left-hand Right-arm medium-fast Auckland Glenn Turner 26 May 1947 Right hand Right arm offbreak Otago John Wright 5 July 1954 Left hand Right arm medium Northern Districts

Background Trevor Franklin and Evan Gray travelled with the team, but were not considered for the World Cup.

Pakistan Manager: Intikhab Alam PlayerDate of BirthBatting styleBowling styleFirst class team Imran Khan (c) 25 November 1952 Right hand Right arm fast PIA Abdul Qadir 15 September 1955 Right-hand Right-arm leg spin Habib Bank Ijaz Faqih 24 March 1956 Right-hand Right-arm offbreak MCB Mansoor Akhtar 6 September 1962 Right-hand Right-arm offspin United Bank Mohsin Khan 15 March 1955 Right-hand Right-arm medium pace Habib Bank Mudassar Nazar 6 April 1956 Right hand Right arm medium Lahore Rashid Khan 15 December 1959 Right-hand Right-arm fast-medium PIA Sarfraz Nawaz 1 December 1948 Right hand Right arm fast-medium Lahore Shahid Mahboob 25 August 1962 Right-hand Right-arm fast-medium Karachi Tahir Naqqash 6 June 1959 Right-hand Right-arm fast-medium Lahore Wasim Bari  (wk) 23 March 1948 Right hand Wicket-keeper Karachi Wasim Raja 3 July 1952 Left hand Right arm legbreak Lahore Zaheer Abbas 24 July 1947 Right hand Right arm offbreak Karachi Javed Miandad 12 June 1957 Right hand Right arm legbreak Habib Bank

Sri Lanka Manager: Tambyah Murugaser, Coach: Garfield Sobers PlayerDate of BirthBatting styleBowling styleFirst class team Duleep Mendis (c) 25 August 1952 Right hand – SSCGuy de Alwis (wk)15 February 1959 Right-hand Wicket-keeper SSCAshantha de Mel 9 May 1959 Right-hand bat Right-arm medium-fast –Somachandra de Silva 11 June 1942 Right hand Right arm legbreak BCAC Roy Dias 18 October 1952 Right hand Right-arm offbreak CCCVinothen John 27 May 1960 Right-hand Right-arm medium-fast SCCBrendon Kuruppu 5 January 1962 Right-handed Wicket-keeper BRC Ranjan Madugalle 22 April 1959 Right hand Right-arm offbreak NCC Arjuna Ranatunga 1 December 1963 Left-hand Right-arm medium SCCRumesh Ratnayake 2 January 1964 Right-hand bat Right-arm fast-medium NCCAthula Samarasekera 5 August 1961 Right-hand bat Right-arm medium CCC Sidath Wettimuny 12 August 1956 Right hand Right-arm medium –Susil Fernando 19 December 1955 Right hand - SLAFSCGranville de Silva 12 March 1955 Right-hand bat Right-arm medium –

West Indies PlayerDate of BirthBatting styleBowling styleFirst class teamClive Lloyd (c) 31 August 1944 left hand Right-arm medium GuyanaFaoud Bacchus 31 January 1954 Right-hand Right-arm medium Guyana Wayne Daniel 16 January 1956 Right-hand Right-arm fast Barbados Winston Davis 18 September 1958 Right-handed Right-arm fast Windward Islands Jeff Dujon (wk) 28 May 1956 Right-hand Wicket-keeper JamaicaJoel Garner 16 December 1952 Right hand Right-arm fast BarbadosLarry Gomes 13 July 1953 Left-hand Right-arm offbreak Trinidad and TobagoGordon Greenidge 1 May 1951 Right-hand Right-arm medium/offbreak BarbadosDesmond Haynes 15 February 1956 Right-hand Right-arm legbreak/medium pace Barbados Michael Holding 16 February 1954 Right-hand Right-arm fast Jamaica Gus Logie 28 September 1960 Right-hand Right-arm off break Trinidad and TobagoMalcolm Marshall 18 April 1958 Right-hand Right-arm fast BarbadosViv Richards 7 March 1952 Right-hand Right-arm medium/offbreak Leeward IslandsAndy Roberts 29 January 1951 Right-hand Right-arm fast Leeward Islands

Background Milton Pydanna was on standby as wicket-keeper in case of any injury to Jeff Dujon.

Zimbabwe Manager: David Ellman-Brown PlayerDate of BirthBatting styleBowling styleDuncan Fletcher (c) 27 September 1948 Left-hand Right arm fast-medium Robin Brown 11 March 1951 Right-hand Right-arm mediumIain Butchart 9 May 1960 Right-hand Right-arm mediumKevin Curran 7 September 1959 Right-handed Right-arm fast medium Jack Heron 8 November 1948 Right-hand Right-arm mediumGraeme Hick 23 May 1966 Right hand Right arm off breakVince Hogg 3 July 1952 Right-hand Right-arm medium-fast David Houghton (wk) 23 June 1957 Right-hand Right-arm off break Grant Paterson 9 June 1960 Right-hand Right-arm off-spin Gerald Peckover 2 June 1955 Right-handed – 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 mediumJohn Traicos 17 May 1947 Right-hand Right arm off-spin

References

External links 1983 Cricket World Cup – Cricinfo.com.