1992 Cricket World Cup squads explained

This is a list of the final 14 man squads named for the 1992 Cricket World Cup held in Australia and New Zealand which took place from 22 February 1992 to 25 March 1992. The oldest player at the 1992 Cricket World Cup was John Traicos (44) of Zimbabwe while the youngest player was Zahid Fazal (18) of Pakistan.

Australia

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Coach: : Bob Simpson

!Player!Date of birth! Matches!Batting style!Bowling style!First-class team
Allan Border (c)27 July 1955234Left handLeft arm orthodox spin
David Boon29 December 1960115Right handRight hand off-spin
Ian Healy (wk)30 April 196464Right handWicket-keeper
Merv Hughes23 November 196124Right handRight-arm fast
Dean Jones24 March 1961125Right handRight arm off-spin
Craig McDermott14 April 196581Right handRight-arm fast
Geoff Marsh31 December 1958113Right handRight arm off-spin
Tom Moody2 October 196524Right handRight-arm medium
Bruce Reid14 March 196356Left handLeft-arm fast-medium
Mark Taylor27 October 196420Left handRight-arm medium
Peter Taylor22 August 195677Left handRight-arm offbreak
Mark Waugh2 June 196529Right handRight-arm mediumRight-arm off-break
Steve Waugh2 June 1965122Right handRight-arm medium
Mike Whitney24 February 195922Right handLeft-arm fast
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England

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Coach: Micky Stewart

! Player ! Date of Birth! Matches!Batting style!Bowling style!First-class team
Graham Gooch (c)23 July 1953100Right handRight arm medium Essex
Ian Botham24 November 1955102Right handRight arm fast-medium Durham
Phillip DeFreitas18 February 196664Right handRight arm fast-medium Lancashire
Neil Fairbrother9 September 196316Left handLeft-arm medium Lancashire
Graeme Hick23 May 19667Right handRight arm off-break Worcestershire
Richard Illingworth23 August 19635Right handSlow left-arm orthodox Worcestershire
Allan Lamb20 June 1954113Right handRight arm medium Northamptonshire
Chris Lewis14 February 196818Right handRight arm fast-medium Nottinghamshire
Derek Pringle18 September 195833Right handRight arm medium Essex
Dermot Reeve2 April 19635Right handRight-arm medium Warwickshire
Gladstone Small18 October 196147Right handRight arm fast-medium Warwickshire
Robin Smith13 September 196335Right handRight arm leg-break
Alec Stewart (wk)8 April 196327Right handRight-arm mediumWicket-keeper Surrey
Phil Tufnell29 April 196612Right handSlow left-arm orthodox Middlesex

India

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Coach: Abbas Ali Baig

!Player!Date of birth! Matches!Batting style!Bowling style!First-class team
Mohammad Azharuddin (c)8 February 1963130Right handRight-arm mediumHyderabad
Subroto Banerjee13 February 19693Right handRight-arm medium-fastBihar
Sachin Tendulkar24 April 197332Right handRight-arm mediumRight-arm leg break

Right-arm leg-break

Bombay
Ajay Jadeja1 February 19710Right handRight-arm mediumHaryana
Vinod Kambli18 January 19726Left handRight-arm off-breakBombay
Kapil Dev6 January 1959182Right handRight-arm fast-mediumHaryana
Ravi Shastri (vc)27 May 1962144Right handSlow left-arm orthodoxBombay
Sanjay Manjrekar12 July 196537Right handRight arm off-spinBombay
Kiran More (wk)4 September 196278Right handWicket-keeperBaroda
Manoj Prabhakar15 April 196368Right handRight-arm medium paceDelhi
Venkatapathy Raju9 July 196916Right handSlow left-arm orthodoxHyderabad
Krishnamachari Srikkanth21 December 1959139Right handRight-arm mediumRight-arm offbreakTamil Nadu
Javagal Srinath31 August 196917Right handRight arm fastKarnataka
Pravin Amre14 August 196812Right handRight-arm leg breakBengal

New Zealand

New Zealand
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Coach: Warren Lees

!Player!Date of birth! Matches!Batting style!Bowling style!First-class team
Martin Crowe (c)22 September 1962114Right handRight arm, medium pace Wellington
Chris Cairns13 June 19706Right handRight arm fast-medium Canterbury
Mark Greatbatch11 December 196340Left-handRight-arm medium Central Districts
Chris Harris20 November 196917Left handRight arm medium Canterbury
Andrew Jones9 May 195955Right handRight-arm off-break Otago
Gavin Larsen27 September 196217Right handRight arm medium Wellington
John Wright5 July 1954144Left handRight arm medium-fast Auckland
Rodney Latham12 June 196112Right handRight arm medium Canterbury
Danny Morrison3 February 1966 41Right handRight-arm fast-medium Auckland
Dipak Patel25 October 195825Right-handRight arm off-break Auckland
Ken Rutherford26 October 196564Right handRight hand medium Otago
Ian Smith (wk)28 February 195790Right handWicket-keeper Auckland
Murphy Su'a7 November 19662Left handLeft-arm fast-medium Auckland
Willie Watson31 August 196547Right handRight arm fast-medium Auckland

Pakistan

Pakistan
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Coach: Intikhab Alam

! Player ! Date of birth! Matches!Batting style!Bowling style!First-class team
Imran Khan (c)25 November 1952167Right handRight arm fastn/a
Aamir Sohail14 September 19665Left handSlow left-arm orthodox
Aaqib Javed5 August 197248Right handRight-arm fast-medium PAC
Ijaz Ahmed20 September 196893Right handLeft-arm medium
Inzamam-ul-Haq3 March 19707Right handSlow left-arm orthodox Multan
Iqbal Sikander19 December 19580Right handRight-arm leg-breakRight-arm googly Karachi
Javed Miandad12 June 1957185Right handRight-arm legbreak
Moin Khan (wk)23 September 197114Right handWicket-keeperRight-arm off-break Karachi
Mushtaq Ahmed28 June 197034Right handRight arm leg-break Multan
Rameez Raja14 August 1962120Right handRight arm leg-break Lahore
Saleem Malik16 April 1963138Right handRight arm off-breakSlow right-arm medium
Wasim Akram3 June 1966112Left handLeft-arm fast PIA
Wasim Haider6 June 19670Right hand Fast right-arm medium Faisalabad
Zahid Fazal10 November 197310Right handRight arm mediumRight arm off-break PIA

South Africa

South Africa
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Coach: Mike Procter[2]

! Player ! Date of Birth! Matches!Batting style!Bowling style!First-class team
Kepler Wessels (c)14 September 19573Left handRight arm off-breakRight arm medium Eastern Province
Tertius Bosch14 March 19600Right handRight arm fast Northern Transvaal
Hansie Cronje25 September 19690Right handRight arm medium Orange Free State
Allan Donald20 October 19663Right handRight arm fast Warwickshire
Omar Henry23 January 19520Left handSlow left-arm orthodox Orange Free State
Andrew Hudson17 March 19652Right handRight-arm medium Natal
Peter Kirsten14 May 19553Right handRight-arm offbreak Border
Adrian Kuiper24 August 19593Right handRight-arm mediumRight-arm offbreak Western Province
Brian McMillan22 December 19632Right handRight-arm medium-fast Western Province
Meyrick Pringle22 June 19660Right handRight-arm fast-medium Western Province
Jonty Rhodes27 July 19690Right handRight-arm medium Natal
Dave Richardson (wk)16 September 19593Right handWicket-keeper Eastern Province
Mark Rushmere7 January 19650Right handRight-arm medium Eastern Province
Richard Snell12 September 19683Right handRight-arm fast-medium Transvaal

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka
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Coach: Chandika Hathurusingha

! Players ! Date of Birth! Matches!Batting style!Bowling style!First-class team
Aravinda de Silva (c)17 October 196592Right handRight-arm off-breakNondescripts
Don Anurasiri25 February 196629Right handSlow left-arm orthodox Panadura SC
Asanka Gurusinha16 September 196661Left-hand Right-arm medium Nondescripts
Chandika Hathurusingha13 September 19684Right-handedRight-arm medium-fast Tamil Union
Sanath Jayasuriya30 June 196920Left handSlow left arm orthodox Bloomfield
Ruwan Kalpage19 February 19702Left handRight-arm offbreak Nondescripts
Roshan Mahanama31 May 196658Right-hand- Colombo CC
Champaka Ramanayake8 January 1965 30Right handRight-arm fast-medium Tamil Union C&A
Arjuna Ranatunga1 December 196399Left-handRight-hand medium Sinhalese SC
Graeme Labrooy7 June 196443Right handRight-arm fast-medium Basnahira North
Athula Samarasekera5 August 196131Right hand Right-arm medium Colombo CC
Hashan Tillakaratne (wk)14 July 196741Left handWicket-keeper Nondescripts
Pramodya Wickramasinghe14 August 19714Right handRight-arm fast Sinhalese SC
Kapila Wijegunawardene23 November 1964 23Right handRight-arm fast-medium Colombo CC

West Indies

West Indies
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! Player! Date of Birth! Matches!Batting style!Bowling style!First-class team
Richie Richardson (c)12 January 1962152Right hand Right-arm medium-pace Leeward Islands
Curtly Ambrose21 September 196361Left handRight-arm fast Leeward Islands
Keith Arthurton21 February 196526Left handSlow left-arm orthodox leg break Leeward Islands
Winston Benjamin31 December 196449Right handRight-arm fast Leeward Islands
Anderson Cummins7 May 1966 10Right handRight-arm fast Jamaica
Roger Harper17 March 196366Right handRight-arm off break Guyana
Desmond Haynes15 February 1956193Right handRight-arm legbreak/medium paceBarbados
Carl Hooper15 December 196671Right handRight-arm off breakGuyana
Brian Lara2 May 196916Left handRight-arm leg breakTrinidad and Tobago
Gus Logie28 September 1960130 Right handRight-arm off break Trinidad and Tobago
Malcolm Marshall18 April 1958131Right handRight-arm fastBarbados
Patrick Patterson15 September 196149Right handRight-arm fast Jamaica
Phil Simmons18 April 196336Right handRight-arm mediumTrinidad and Tobago
David Williams (wk)4 November 196317Right handWicket-keeper/Right-arm legbreakTrinidad and Tobago

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe
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Coach: Don Topley[3]

! Player ! Date of birth! Matches!Batting style!Bowling style
David Houghton (c)23 June 195712Right-handRight-arm off break
Kevin Arnott8 March 19614Right-hand-
Eddo Brandes5 March 19634Right-handRight arm fast
Mark Burmester24 January 19680Right-handRight-arm medium
Iain Butchart9 May 196012Right-handRight-arm medium
Alistair Campbell23 September 19720Left-handRight-arm off break
Andy Flower (wk)28 April 19680Left-handWicket-keeperRight-arm off break
Kevin Duers30 June 19600Right handRight-arm medium-fast
Wayne James27 August 19650Right hand-|-|Malcolm Jarvis|6 December 1955| 5|Right hand|Left-arm medium fast|-|Ali Shah|7 August 1959| 9|Left-hand|Right arm medium|-|Andrew Pycroft|6 June 1956| 12|Right-hand|Right-arm offbreak|-|John Traicos|17 May 1947| 12|Right-hand|Right arm off-spin|-|Andy Waller|25 September 1959| 6|Right hand|Right-arm medium|}

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cricket World Cup - Squads. worldcupofcricket.com. https://web.archive.org/web/20120317062129/http://www.worldcupofcricket.com/squads-1992-cricket-world-cup.php. 2012-03-17. dead. 2019-08-24.
  2. Web site: 'We left knowing that we put South Africa on the map' . ESPNcricinfo . en . 30 October 2018.
  3. Web site: https://i.imgci.com/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/WORLD_CUPS/WC92/ZIM_AT_WC92.html . 2024-07-13 . i.imgci.com.

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