The very first International Cricket World Cup was played from 7 to 21 June, 1975 in England. A total of 8 countries participate in the inaugural ICC world cup. 15 matches were played in the tournament including knockout games. West Indies cricket team won 1975 world cup under Clive Lloyd captaincy.
England, Australia, West Indies, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and East Africa teams took participation in first cricket world cup. Let’s have a look at the teams and players list for all 8 nations in 1975 world cup.
All 8 Teams & Squads
West Indies |
Australia |
England |
New Zealand |
| Clive Lloyd (Captain) | Ian Chappell (Captain) | Mike Denness (Captain) | Glenn Turner (Captain) |
| Vanburn Holder | Greg Chappell | Barry Wood | Geoff Howarth |
| Roy Fredericks | Doug Walters | Dennis Amiss | Barry Hadlee |
| Rohan Kanhai | Ross Edwards | Geoff Arnold | Richard Hadlee |
| Keith Boyce | Max Walker | Frank Hayes | Dayle Hadlee |
| Alvin Kallicharran | Gary Gilmour | Alan Knott | Lance Cairns |
| Gordon Greenidge | Alan Turner | Keith Fletcher | Brian McKechnie |
| Andy Roberts | Dennis Lillee | John Snow | John Parker |
| Lance Gibbs | Jeff Thomson | Tony Greig | Hedley Howarth |
| Deryck Murray | Rick McCosker | Chris Old | Richard Collinge |
| Bernard Julien | Rod Marsh | John Jameson | Ken Wadsworth |
| Viv Richards | Ashley Mallett | Peter Lever | John Morrison |
| Derek Underwood | Brian Hastings | ||
India |
Pakistan |
Sri Lanka |
East Africa |
| Srinivas Venkataraghavan (Captain) | Asif Iqbal (Captain) | Anura Tennekoon (Captain) | Harilal Shah (Captain) |
| Eknath Solkar | Majid Khan | Tony Opatha | Samuel Walusimbi |
| Gundappa Viswanath | Pervez Mir | Lalith Kaluperuma | Frasat Ali |
| Syed Abid Ali | Wasim Bari | Mevan Pieris | Shiraz Sumar |
| Bishan Singh Bedi | Mushtaq Mohammad | Ajit de Silva | Zulfiqar Ali |
| Sunil Gavaskar | Zaheer Abbas | Anura Ranasinghe | Jawahir Shah |
| Mohinder Amarnath | Javed Miandad | Somachandra de Silva | Yunus Badat |
| Farokh Engineer | Imran Khan | Sunil Wettimuny | Ramesh Sethi |
| Madan Lal | Asif Masood | David Heyn | Hamish McLeod |
| Karsan Ghavri | Sadiq Mohammad | Duleep Mendis | Mehmood Quaraishy |
| Anshuman Gaekwad | Naseer Malik | Ranjit Fernando | Praful Mehta |
| Brijesh Patel | Wasim Raja | Bandula Warnapura | Don Pringle |
| Sarfraz Nawaz | Michael Tissera | John Nagenda | |
| Prabhu Nana |
