CRICKETNMORE: 8 teams participated in the inaugural World Cup in 1975. List of cricketers who represented their country are as follows:

India

Sunil Gavaskar, Eknath Solkar, Aunshuman Gaekwad, Gundappa Viswanath, Brijesh Patel, Mohinder Amarnath, Farokh Engineer (wk), Syed Abid Ali, Madan Lal, Srinivas (c), Karsan Ghavri, Bishan Bedi

Pakistan

Sadiq Mohammad, Majid Khan, Zaheer Abbas, Mushtaq Mohammad, Asif Iqbal (c), Wasim Raja, Imran Khan, Sarfraz Nawaz, Wasim Bari (wk), Asif Masood, Naseer Malik, Javed Miandad, Pervez Mir

Australia

Alan Turner, Rick McCosker, Ian Chappell (c), Greg Chappell, Doug Walters, Ross Edwards, Rod Marsh (wk), Max Walker, Jeff Thomson, Ashley Mallett, Dennis Lillee, Gary Gilmour

Sri Lanka

Ranjit Fernando (wk), Bandula Warnapura, Anura Tennekoon (c), Michael Tissera, Duleep Mendis, David Heyn, Anura Ranasinghe, Mevan Pieris, Tony Opatha, Somachandra Lalith Kaluperuma, Sunil Wettimuny, Ajit de Silva

England

John Jameson, Dennis Amiss, Keith Fletcher, Tony Greig, Mike Denness (c), Chris Old, Barry Wood, Alan Knott (wk), John Snow, Peter Lever, Geoff Arnold, Frank Hayes, Derek Underwood

West Indies

Roy Fredericks, Deryck Murray (wk), Alvin Rohan Kanhai, Clive Lloyd (c), Sir Viv Richards, Bernard Julien, Keith Boyce, Vanburn Holder, Andy Roberts, Lance Gibbs, Gordon Greenidge

New Zealand

John Morrison, Glenn Turner (c), Barry Hadlee, John Parker, Brian Hastings, Ken Wadsworth (wk), Brian McKechnie, Dayle Hadlee, Hedley Howarth, Richard Collinge, Geoff Howarth, Lance Cairns

East Africa

Frasat Ali, Samuel Walusimbi, Ramesh Sethi, Shiraz Sumar, Jawahir Shah, Harilal Shah (c), Mehmood Quaraishy, Zulfiqar Ali, Hamish McLeod (wk), Parbhu Nana, John Nagenda, Praful Mehta, Yunus Badat, Don Pringle

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