1979 Cricket World Cup Team Squads, Players List

The second edition of cricket world cup was also populated as Prudential World Cup which was played from 9 to 23 June 1979. England hosted consecutive 2nd time the cricket world cup. 8 teams participated in 1979 ICC world cup and Canada made debut in the world cup. Defending champions West Indies defend world cup title successfully in 1979 at Lord’s London.

West Indies, Australia, England, India, Sri Lanka, Canada, New Zealand and Pakistan participated in 1979 cricket world cup. Let’s have a look at the eight team squad and players list.

All 8 Teams & Squad

West Indies	Australia	England	India
Clive Lloyd (Captain)	Kim Hughes (Captain)	Mike Brearley (Captain)	Srinivas Venkataraghavan (Captain)
Desmond Haynes	Alan Hurst	Mike Gatting	Karsan Ghavri
Deryck Murray	Rick Darling	Geoff Miller	Anshuman Gaekwad
Alvin Kallicharran	Allan Border	Bob Willis	Brijesh Patel
Colin Croft	Rodney Hogg	Ian Botham	Gundappa Viswanath
Faoud Bacchus	Geoff Dymock	Chris Old	Mohinder Amarnath
Gordon Greenidge	Trevor Laughlin	Phil Edmonds	Dilip Vengsarkar
Collis King	Gary Cosier	Mike Hendrick	Sunil Gavaskar
Joel Garner	Graham Yallop	Graham Gooch	Surinder Khanna
Andy Roberts	Kevin Wright	Geoffrey Boycott	Bishan Singh Bedi
Michael Holding	Andrew Hilditch	Bob Taylor	Kapil Dev
Larry Gomes	Jeff Moss	David Gower
Viv Richards	Graeme Porter	Wayne Larkins
Malcolm Marshall		Derek Randall
New Zealand	Pakistan	Sri Lanka	Canada
Mark Burgess (Captain)	Asif Iqbal (Captain)	Anura Tennekoon (Captain)	Bryan Mauricette (Captain)
John Morrison	Majid Khan	Ranjan Gunatilleke	Cornelius Henry
Bruce Edgar	Haroon Rashid	Tony Opatha	Franklyn Dennis
Glenn Turner	Zaheer Abbas	Ajit de Silva	Jitendra Patel
Warren Stott	Imran Khan	Duleep Mendis	Tariq Javed
Richard Hadlee	Javed Miandad	Roy Dias	Charles Baksh
Lance Cairns	Wasim Raja	Sudath Pasqual	Martin Stead
Gary Troup	Sikander Bakht	Somachandra de Silva	John Vaughan
Geoff Howarth	Sadiq Mohammad	Ranjan Madugalle	Robert Callender
Ewen Chatfield	Mudassar Nazar	Bandula Warnapura	John Valentine
Brian McKechnie	Wasim Bari	Stanley de Silva	Glenroy Sealy
Warren Lees	Sarfraz Nawaz	Sunil Wettimuny	Cecil Marshall
Jeremy Coney		Sunil Jayasinghe	Christopher Chappell
John Wright