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.
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 Gary Cosier 25 April 1953 Right hand Right arm medium Rick Darling 1 May 1957 Right hand – Geoff Dymock 21 July 1945 Left hand Left arm fast-medium Andrew Hilditch 20 May 1956 Right hand Right arm medium Rodney Hogg 5 March 1951 Right hand Right hand fast Alan Hurst 15 July 1950 Right hand Right arm fast Trevor Laughlin 30 January 1951 Left hand Right arm medium Jeff Moss 29 June 1947 Left hand – Graeme Porter 18 March 1955 Right hand Right hand medium Kevin Wright (wk) 27 December 1953 Right hand Wicket-keeper Graham Yallop 7 October 1952 Left hand Left arm medium Dav Whatmore 16 March 1954 Right hand - Source: Cricinfo 1979 World Cup stats for Australia
PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling styleFirst 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
PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling styleFirst 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:
PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling styleFirst 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 mediumRight 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
PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling styleFirst 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
PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling styleFirst 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 mediumRight 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
PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling styleFirst 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
Manager: Clyde Walcott PlayerDate of birthBatting styleBowling styleFirst class teamClive Lloyd (c) 31 August 1944 left hand Right-arm medium GuyanaColin Croft 15 March 1953 Right-hand Right-arm fast GuyanaJoel Garner 16 December 1952 Right hand Right-arm fast BarbadosGordon Greenidge 1 May 1951 Right-hand Right-arm medium/offbreak BarbadosDesmond Haynes 15 February 1956 Right-hand Right-arm legbreak/medium pace BarbadosMichael Holding 16 February 1954 Right-hand Right-arm fast JamaicaAlvin Kallicharran 21 March 1949 Left-hand Right-arm offbreak GuyanaCollis King 11 June 1951 Right-hand Right-arm medium BarbadosDeryck Murray (wk) 20 May 1943 Right-hand Legbreak Trinidad and TobagoViv Richards 7 March 1952 Right-hand Right-arm medium/offbreak Leeward IslandsAndy Roberts 29 January 1951 Right-hand Right-arm fast Leeward IslandsLarry Gomes 13 July 1953 Left-hand Right-arm offbreak Trinidad and TobagoFaoud Bacchus 31 January 1954 Right-hand Right-arm medium GuyanaMalcolm Marshall 18 April 1958 Right-hand Right-arm fast Barbados Source: Cricinfo 1979 World Cup stats for West Indies
References
External links 1979 Cricket World Cup. Cricinfo.com. 1979 Cricket World Cup Squads . worldcupofcricket.com.