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 |
The great team all