World Series Cricket squads

Every player to appear in Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket is listed below along with their appearance records.
Four teams would take part in the various World Series Cricket competitions, Australia XI, Cavaliers XI, West Indies XI, World XI.

WSC Australia XI

Main article: World Series Cricket Australia XI

Player D.O.B. Role Tests* Supertests WSC ODIs Batting Bowling Nation Ian Chappell (c) 26 September 1943 BAT 75 14 35 RHB LB Australia Ray Bright 13 July 1954 BWL 25 15 11 RHB SLA Australia Greg Chappell 7 August 1948 BAT 87 14 37 RHB RM Australia Trevor Chappell 21 October 1952 ALL 3 4 10 RHB RM Australia Ian Davis 25 June 1953 BAT 15 5 25 RHB UNK Australia Ross Edwards 1 December 1942 BAT 20 2 9 RHB UNK Australia Gary Gilmour 26 June 1951 ALL 15 7 34 LHB LFM Australia David Hookes 3 May 1955 BAT 23 12 33 LHB SLA Australia Martin Kent 23 November 1953 BAT 3 10 20 RHB UNK Australia Bruce Laird 21 November 1950 BAT 21 13 24 RHB UNK Australia Rob Langer 3 October 1948 BAT 0 2 4 LHB RM Australia Dennis Lillee 18 July 1949 BWL 70 14 24 RHB RF Australia Rick McCosker 11 December 1946 BAT 25 6 14 RHB LB Australia Garth McKenzie 24 June 1941 BWL 60 0 1 RHB RF Australia Ashley Mallett 13 July 1945 BWL 38 0 0 RHB OB Australia Mick Malone 9 October 1950 BWL 1 1 29 RHB RFM Australia Rod Marsh 4 November 1947 WKT 96 15 40 LHB OB Australia Kerry O'Keeffe 25 November 1949 BWL 24 0 1 RHB LB Australia Len Pascoe 13 February 1950 BWL 14 9 19 RHB RF Australia Wayne Prior 30 September 1952 BWL 0 2 7 RHB RF Australia Ian Redpath 11 May 1941 BAT 66 2 5 RHB RM Australia Richie Robinson 8 June 1946 WKT 3 1 3 RHB UNK Australia Jeff Thomson 16 August 1950 BWL 51 5 6 RHB RF Australia Max Walker 12 September 1948 BWL 34 7 31 RHB RFM Australia Doug Walters 21 December 1945 BAT 74 1 16 RHB RM Australia Graeme Watson 8 March 1945 ALL 5 0 0 RHB RM Australia Kepler Wessels 14 September 1957 BAT 40 4 13 LHB RM Australia/ South Africa Dennis Yagmich 23 August 1948 WKT 0 0 0 RHB UNK Australia

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WSC West Indies XI

Main article: World Series Cricket West Indies XI

Player D.O.B. Role Tests* Supertests WSC ODIs Batting Bowling Nation Clive Lloyd (c) 31 August 1944 BAT 110 13 31 LHB RM Guyana Jim Allen 18 August 1951 BAT 0 3 20 RHB RM Leeward Islands Richard Austin 5 September 1954 ALL 2 4 18 RHB RM/OB Jamaica Colin Croft 15 March 1953 BWL 27 7 15 RHB RF Guyana Wayne Daniel 16 January 1956 BWL 10 7 28 RHB RF Barbados Roy Fredericks 11 November 1942 BAT 59 10 22 LHB LAC Guyana Joel Garner 16 December 1952 BWL 58 7 28 RHB RF Barbados Lance Gibbs 29 September 1934 BWL 79 0 0 RHB OB Guyana Gordon Greenidge 1 May 1951 BAT 108 13 31 RHB RM Barbados Desmond Haynes 15 February 1956 BAT 116 4 18 RHB RM Barbados Michael Holding 16 February 1954 BWL 60 9 16 RHB RF Jamaica David Holford 16 April 1940 ALL 24 1 2 RHB LB Trinidad And Tobago Bernard Julien 13 March 1950 ALL 24 0 25 RHB LMF/SLA Trinidad And Tobago Rohan Kanhai 26 December 1935 BAT 79 0 0 RHB RM Guyana Collis King 11 June 1951 BAT 9 8 34 RHB RM Barbados Deryck Murray 20 May 1943 WKT 62 10 29 RHB LB Trinidad And Tobago Albert Padmore 17 December 1946 BWL 2 5 11 RHB OB Barbados Viv Richards 7 March 1952 BAT 121 14 33 RHB OB Leeward Islands Andy Roberts 29 January 1951 BWL 47 13 30 RHB RF Leeward Islands Lawrence Rowe 8 June 1949 BAT 30 9 28 RHB LFM Jamaica

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WSC World XI

Main article: World Series Cricket World XI

Player D.O.B. Role Tests* Supertests WSC ODIs Batting Bowling Nation Tony Greig (c) 6 October 1946 ALL 58 4 23 RHB RFM/OB England Dennis Amiss 7 April 1943 BAT 50 1 16 RHB LM England Asif Iqbal 6 June 1943 BAT 58 5 20 RHB RM Pakistan Eddie Barlow 12 August 1940 ALL 30 1 4 RHB RM South Africa Richard Hadlee 3 July 1951 ALL 86 0 7 LHB RF New Zealand Imran Khan 25 November 1952 ALL 88 5 17 RHB RF Pakistan Javed Miandad 12 June 1957 BAT 124 2 7 RHB LB Pakistan Alan Knott 9 April 1946 WKT 95 6 28 RHB OB England Garth Le Roux 4 September 1955 BWL 0 3 9 RHB RF South Africa Haroon Rashid 25 March 1953 BAT 23 0 4 RHB RM Pakistan Majid Khan 28 September 1946 BAT 63 2 15 RHB OB Pakistan Mushtaq Mohammed 22 November 1943 ALL 57 0 2 RHB LB Pakistan Mike Procter 15 September 1946 ALL 7 4 25 RHB RF South Africa Clive Rice 23 July 1949 ALL 0 3 17 RHB RFM South Africa Barry Richards 21 July 1945 BAT 4 5 26 RHB OB South Africa Sarfraz Nawaz 1 December 1948 BWL 55 0 5 RHB RFM Pakistan John Snow 13 October 1941 BWL 49 0 14 RHB RFM England Taslim Arif 1 May 1954 WKT 6 0 0 RHB RM Pakistan Derek Underwood 8 June 1945 BWL 86 5 20 RHB SLA England Bob Woolmer 14 May 1948 ALL 19 0 12 RHB RM England Zaheer Abbas 24 July 1947 BAT 78 4 14 RHB OB Pakistan

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The following West Indians also represented WSC World XI in the 1977–78 Supertests

• Clive Lloyd (2) Guyana
• Roy Fredericks (1) Guyana
• Viv Richards (3) Leeward Islands
• Wayne Daniel (2) Barbados
• Gordon Greenidge (3) Barbados
• Andy Roberts (3) Leeward Islands
• Joel Garner (2) Barbados[4]

The Following West Indians also represented WSC World XI in the 1978/79 on the tour of New Zealand

• Collis King (7) Barbados
• Bernard Julien (5) Trinidad and Tobago
• Albert Padmore (4) Barbados
• Lawrence Rowe (7) Jamaica[5]
• World Series Cricket Player Records

WSC Cavaliers XI

Main article: World Series Cricket Cavaliers XI

Cavaliers XI were included as a fourth team for the 1978/79 Country Cavaliers Tour. The XI was selected from players the other three sides had not selected for that rounds fixtures. This gave some of the contracted players who were not regularly appearing the chance to perform and earn bonus/prize money on offer.

Nat.	Role	Player	Apps	Nat.	Role	Player	Apps
	BAT	Rick McCosker	19		ALL	Bob Woolmer	3
	BAT	Ross Edwards	17		ALL	Gary Gilmour	1
	BAT	Martin Kent	16		WKT	Richie Robinson	17
	BAT	Doug Walters	12		WKT	Taslim Arif	3
	BAT	Robert Langer	10		BWL	Kerry O'Keeffe	15
	BAT	Haroon Rashid	7		BWL	John Snow	11
	BAT	Dennis Amiss	6		BWL	Wayne Prior	8
	BAT	Rohan Kanhai	5		BWL	Sarfraz Nawaz	4
	BAT	Ian Redpath	5		BWL	Garth McKenzie	4
	BAT	Kepler Wessels	2		BWL	Mick Malone	4
	BAT	Jim Allen	2		BWL	Wayne Daniel	3
	BAT	Bruce Laird	2		BWL	Len Pascoe	3
	ALL	Eddie Barlow (c)	19		BWL	Albert Padmore	2
	ALL	Trevor Chappell	13		BWL	Max Walker	2
	ALL	David Holford	10		BWL	Ian Davis	1
	ALL	Mushtaq Mohammed	9		BWL	Lance Gibbs	1
	ALL	Graeme Watson	9		ALL	Richard Austin	4
	ALL	Bernard Julien	4

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Key

Tests – Number of Test Matches played at the end of the player's career

Supertests – Number of World Series Cricket Supertests played

WSC ODIs – Number of World Series Cricket One Day International Matches played; International Cup ODIs (1977/78), International Cup (1978/79), WSC Tour Matches (1978/79 New Zealand), One-day games (1978/79 West Indies). Does not include Country Cup matches, Cavaliers Country Tour, Swan Channel 9 Cup, or other matches played during the WSC era.

References

1. "Cricinfo – WSC Australia Squad".
2. "Cricinfo – WSC West Indies Squad".
3. "Cricinfo – WSC World XI Squad".
4. "Cricinfo – WSC Supertests 1977/78 Scorecards".
5. "Cricinfo – WSC 1978/79 Tour of New Zealand Scorecards".
6. "Cricinfo – Cavaliers Statistics".