This is a list of cricketers who represented their country at the1979 Cricket World Cup inEngland which took place from 9 June 1979 to 23 June 1979. The oldest player at the 1979 Cricket World Cup wasGarnet Brisbane (40) of Canada while the youngest player wasSudath Pasqual (17) of Sri Lanka.
| Player | Date of Birth | Batting style | Bowling style | First class team |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kim Hughes (c) | 26 January 1954 | Right hand | Right armmedium |  Western Australia |
| Allan Border | 27 July 1955 | Left hand | Left armorthodox spin |  Queensland |
| Gary Cosier | 25 April 1953 | Right hand | Right armmedium |  South Australia |
| Rick Darling | 1 May 1957 | Right hand | – | South Australia |
| Geoff Dymock | 21 July 1945 | Left hand | Left armfast-medium | Queensland |
| Andrew Hilditch | 20 May 1956 | Right hand | Right armmedium | South Australia |
| Rodney Hogg | 5 March 1951 | Right hand | Right handfast | South Australia |
| Alan Hurst | 15 July 1950 | Right hand | Right armfast |  Victoria |
| Trevor Laughlin | 30 January 1951 | Left hand | Right armmedium | Victoria |
| Jeff Moss | 29 June 1947 | Left hand | – | Victoria |
| Graeme Porter | 18 March 1955 | Right hand | Right handmedium | Western Australia |
| Kevin Wright (wk) | 27 December 1953 | Right hand | Wicket-keeper | Western Australia |
| Graham Yallop | 7 October 1952 | Left hand | Left armmedium | Victoria |
| Dav Whatmore | 16 March 1954 | Right hand | - | Victoria |
Source:Cricinfo 1979 World Cup stats for Australia
| Player | Date of Birth | Batting style | Bowling style | First 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 armmedium-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 armmedium | Ottawa |
| Tariq Javed | 12 June 1949 | Right hand | Right armleg-break | Ottawa Karachi |
| Cecil Marshall | 13 September 1939 | Right hand | Right armmedium | Ottawa |
| Jitendra Patel | 26 November 1945 | Left hand | Left armorthodox spin | London (Ontario) Baroda |
| Glenroy Sealy | 11 June 1940 | Right hand | Right armmedium | Toronto Barbados |
| Martin Stead | 1 June 1958 | Right hand | Right armmedium | Vancouver |
| John Valentine | 20 September 1954 | Left hand | Left armmedium | Ottawa |
| John Vaughan | 8 June 1945 | Right hand | Right armmedium-fast | Ottawa |
| Garnet Brisbane | 31 December 1938 | Right hand | Left armorthodox spin | Quebec |
Source:Cricinfo 1979 World Cup stats for Canada
| Player | Date of Birth | Batting style | Bowling style | First class team |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mike Brearley (c) | 28 April 1942 | Right hand | Wicket-keeper |  Middlesex |
| Ian Botham | 24 November 1955 | Right hand | Right armfast-medium | Somerset |
| Geoffrey Boycott | 21 October 1940 | Right hand | Right armmedium | Yorkshire |
| Phil Edmonds | 8 March 1951 | Right hand | Left armorthodox spin | Middlesex |
| Mike Gatting[1] | 6 June 1957 | Right hand | Right armmedium | Middlesex |
| Graham Gooch | 23 July 1953 | Right hand | Right armmedium | Essex |
| David Gower | 1 April 1957 | Left hand | Right armoff-break | Leicestershire |
| Mike Hendrick | 22 October 1948 | Right hand | Right armfast-medium | Derbyshire |
| Wayne Larkins | 22 November 1953 | Right hand | Right armmedium | Northamptonshire |
| Geoff Miller | 8 September 1952 | Right hand | Right armoff-break | Derbyshire |
| Chris Old | 22 December 1948 | Left hand | Right armfast-medium | Yorkshire |
| Derek Randall | 24 February 1951 | Right hand | Right armmedium | Nottinghamshire |
| Bob Taylor (wk) | 17 July 1941 | Right hand | Wicket-keeper | Derbyshire |
| Bob Willis | 30 May 1949 | Right hand | Right armfast | Warwickshire |
Source:Cricinfo 1979 World Cup stats for England
| Player | Date of Birth | Batting style | Bowling style | First class team |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan (c) | 21 April 1945 | Right hand | Right armoffbreak | Tamil Nadu |
| Mohinder Amarnath | 24 September 1950 | Right hand | Right armmedium | Delhi |
| Bishan Singh Bedi | 25 September 1946 | Right hand | Left armslow orthodox | Delhi |
| Anshuman Gaekwad | 23 September 1952 | Right hand | Right armoffbreak | Baroda |
| Sunil Gavaskar (vc) | 10 July 1949 | Right hand | Right armmedium Right armoffbreak | Bombay |
| Karsan Ghavri | 28 February 1951 | Left hand | Left armmedium | Bombay |
| Kapil Dev | 6 January 1959 | Right hand | Right armfast-medium | Haryana |
| Surinder Khanna (wk) | 3 June 1956 | Right hand | Wicket-keeper | Delhi |
| Brijesh Patel | 24 November 1952 | Right hand | Right armoffbreak | Karnataka |
| Dilip Vengsarkar | 6 April 1956 | Right hand | Right armmedium | Bombay |
| Gundappa Viswanath | 12 February 1949 | Right hand | Right armlegbreak | Karnataka |
| Bharath Reddy | 12 November 1954 | Right hand | Wicket-keeper | Tamil Nadu |
| Yajurvindra Singh | 1 August 1952 | Right hand | Right armmedium | Maharashtra |
| Yashpal Sharma | 11 August 1954 | Right hand | Right armmedium | Punjab |
Source:ESPNcricinfo[2]
| Player | Date of Birth | Batting style | Bowling style | First class team |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Burgess (c) | 17 July 1944 | Right hand | Right armoff-break |  Auckland |
| Lance Cairns | 10 October 1949 | Right hand | Right armmedium-fast | Otago |
| Ewen Chatfield | 3 July 1950 | Right hand | Right armmedium-fast | Wellington |
| Jeremy Coney | 21 June 1952 | Right hand | Right armmedium | Wellington |
| Bruce Edgar | 23 November 1956 | Left hand | Wicket-keeper | Wellington |
| Richard Hadlee | 3 July 1951 | Left hand | Right armfast | Canterbury |
| Geoff Howarth | 29 March 1951 | Right hand | Right armoffbreak | Auckland |
| Warren Lees (wk) | 19 March 1952 | Right hand | Wicket-keeper | Otago |
| Brian McKechnie | 6 November 1953 | Right hand | Right armfast-medium | Otago |
| John Morrison | 27 August 1947 | Right hand | Left armorthodox spin | Wellington |
| Warren Stott | 8 December 1946 | Right hand | Right armmedium | Auckland |
| Gary Troup | 3 October 1952 | Right hand | Left armfast-medium | Auckland |
| Glenn Turner | 26 May 1947 | Right hand | Right armoffbreak | Otago |
| John Wright | 5 July 1954 | Left hand | Right armmedium | Northern Districts |
Source:Cricinfo 1979 World Cup stats for New Zealand
| Player | Date of Birth | Batting style | Bowling style | First class team |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asif Iqbal (c) | 6 June 1943 | Right hand | Right armmedium | Karachi |
| Zaheer Abbas | 24 July 1947 | Right hand | Right armoffbreak | Karachi |
| Sikander Bakht | 25 August 1957 | Right hand | Right armmedium-fast | Karachi |
| Wasim Bari (wk) | 23 March 1948 | Right hand | Wicket-keeper | Karachi |
| Imran Khan | 25 November 1952 | Right hand | Right armfast | PIA |
| Majid Khan | 28 September 1946 | Right hand | Right armmedium Right armoffbreak | Rawalpindi |
| Javed Miandad | 12 June 1957 | Right hand | Right armlegbreak | Habib Bank |
| Sadiq Mohammad | 3 May 1945 | Left hand | Right armlegbreak | Karachi |
| Sarfraz Nawaz | 1 December 1948 | Right hand | Right armfast-medium | Lahore |
| Mudassar Nazar | 6 April 1956 | Right hand | Right armmedium | Lahore |
| Wasim Raja | 3 July 1952 | Left hand | Right armlegbreak | Lahore |
| Haroon Rashid | 25 March 1953 | Right hand | Right armmedium | Karachi |
| Iqbal Qasim | 6 August 1953 | Left hand | Left armorthodox spin | Karachi |
| Hasan Jamil | 25 July 1952 | Left hand | Left armmedium | PIA |
Source:Cricinfo 1979 World Cup stats for Pakistan
| Player | Date of Birth | Batting style | Bowling style | First class team |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anura Tennekoon (c) | 29 October 1946 | Right hand | Left armorthodox spin |  SSC |
| Ajit de Silva | 12 December 1952 | Left hand | Left armorthodox spin | BCAC |
| Somachandra de Silva | 11 June 1942 | Right hand | Right armlegbreak | BCAC |
| Stanley de Silva | 17 November 1956 | Right hand | Right armfast-medium | – |
| Roy Dias | 18 October 1952 | Right hand | Right-armoffbreak | CCC |
| Ranjan Gunatilleke | 15 August 1951 | Right hand | Right-armmedium | – |
| Sunil Jayasinghe (wk) | 15 July 1955 | Right hand | None | BCAC |
| Ranjan Madugalle | 22 April 1959 | Right hand | Right-armoffbreak | FFCC |
| Duleep Mendis | 25 August 1952 | Right hand | – | SSC |
| Tony Opatha | 5 August 1947 | Right hand | Right armmedium | CCC |
| Sudath Pasqual | 16 October 1961 | Left-hand | Right-armmedium | RCC |
| Bandula Warnapura (vc) | 1 March 1953 | Right hand | Right armmedium | BCACBRC |
| 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[3]
| Player | Date of Birth | Batting style | Bowling style | First class team |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clive Lloyd (c) | 31 August 1944 | left hand | Right-armmedium |  Guyana |
| Colin Croft | 15 March 1953 | Right-hand | Right-armfast | Guyana |
| Joel Garner | 16 December 1952 | Right hand | Right-armfast | Barbados |
| Gordon Greenidge | 1 May 1951 | Right-hand | Right-armmedium/offbreak | Barbados |
| Desmond Haynes | 15 February 1956 | Right-hand | Right-armlegbreak/medium pace | Barbados |
| Michael Holding | 16 February 1954 | Right-hand | Right-armfast |  Jamaica |
| Alvin Kallicharran | 21 March 1949 | Left-hand | Right-armoffbreak | Guyana |
| Collis King | 11 June 1951 | Right-hand | Right-armmedium | Barbados |
| Deryck Murray (wk) | 20 May 1943 | Right-hand | Legbreak |  Trinidad and Tobago |
| Viv Richards | 7 March 1952 | Right-hand | Right-armmedium/offbreak |  Leeward Islands |
| Andy Roberts | 29 January 1951 | Right-hand | Right-armfast | Leeward Islands |
| Larry Gomes | 13 July 1953 | Left-hand | Right-armoffbreak | Trinidad and Tobago |
| Faoud Bacchus | 31 January 1954 | Right-hand | Right-armmedium | Guyana |
| Malcolm Marshall | 18 April 1958 | Right-hand | Right-armfast | Barbados |
Source:Cricinfo 1979 World Cup stats for West Indies
